Patents

The purchase of below listed products includes a non-transferable license to use these products for the purchaser's internal research. All other commercial uses of these products, including without limitation product use for diagnostic purposes, resale of product in the original or any modified form or product use in providing commercial services require a separate license from Fermentas, a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific. For further information on obtaining licenses please contact Fermentas at fermentas.info@thermofisher.com.

Nickases (N.Bpu10I)
This product or the use of this product is covered by US patent No. 6,867,028 and corresponding counterparts.

Restriction enzymes with altered specificity (Eco57MI)
This product or the use of this product is covered by US patent No. 6,893,854 and corresponding counterparts.

Nucleic acid purification process (NoLimits™ fragments, DNA ladders)
Manufacture of this product uses process covered by the patent EP1245674B1 and corresponding counterparts.

Reversible inactivation of thermostable enzymes (TrueStart™ and PyroStart PCR reagents)
This product or the use of this product is covered by EPO patent application EP1806400A1 and corresponding counterparts.

Transfection Reagent (TurboFect™)
This product or the use of this product is covered by EPO patent application EP2070970A2 and corresponding counterparts.

pJET1.2 vector
This product or the use of this product is covered by EPO patent application EP2011878A1 and corresponding counterparts.

Protein evolution in vitro method; Mutant Reverse Transcriptase technology (Premium™ and Maxima® RT)
This product or the use of this product is covered by international patent application WO/2009/125006.

Patent pending:
Methylation-specific REases (SgeI).
Protein delivery composition (TurboFect™ Protein Transfection Reagent).
Polymerase stabilizing technology (DreamTaq™ polymerases).

 

Licenses

Fermentas products may be covered by one or more licenses. By use of these products you agree to comply with the terms and conditions of applicable license:

Products Conveying Polymerase and PCR Process Patent Rights
In certain countries use of this product is covered by patents. Purchase of product in these countries includes non-transferable, limited license for using only this amount of product for the purchaser's own internal research. For more information please contact info@fermentas.com.

Chemically-Modified Hot Start Polymerase Reagents and Kits
Purchase of this product includes an immunity from suit under patents specified in the product insert to use only the amount purchased for the purchaser's own internal research. No other patent rights (such as 5' Nuclease Process patent rights) are conveyed expressly, by implication, or by estoppel. Further information on purchasing licenses may be obtained by contacting the Director of Licensing, Applied Biosystems, 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, California 94404, USA.

dsDNA-Binding Dye Research Kits
Purchase of this product includes an immunity from suit under patents specified in the product insert to use only the amount purchased for the purchaser's own internal research. No other patent rights are conveyed expressly, by implication, or by estoppel. Further information on purchasing licenses may be obtained by contacting the Director of Licensing, Applied Biosystems, 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, California 94404, USA.

SYBR® Green I dye
This product is provided under an agreement between Molecular Probes, Inc. and FERMENTAS and the manufacture, use, sale or import of this product is subject to one or more of U.S. Patents, and corresponding international equivalents, owned by Molecular Probes, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Invitrogen Corp). The purchase of this product conveys to the buyer the non-transferable right to use the purchased amount of the product and components of the product in research conducted by the buyer, where such research does not include testing, analysis or screening services for any third party in return for compensation on a per test basis. The buyer cannot sell or otherwise transfer (a) this product (b) its components or (c) materials made using this product or its components to a third party or otherwise use this product or its components or materials made using this product or its components for Commercial Purposes. Commercial Purposes means any activity by a party for consideration and may include, but is not limited to: (1) use of the product or its components in manufacturing; (2) use of the product or its components to provide a service, information, or data; (3) use of the product or its components for therapeutic, diagnostic or prophylactic purposes; or (4) resale of the product or its components, whether or not such product or its components are resold for use in research. For information on purchasing a license to this product for purposes other than research, contact Molecular Probes, Inc., Business Development, 29851 Willow Creek Road, Eugene, OR 97402, USA Tel: (541) 465-8300, Fax: (541) 335-0354.

Nicking enzyme technology (Nb.Mva1269I)
This product is licensed under U.S. Patent No. 7,081,358 or corresponding foreign patents.

Recombinant thermostable DNA polymerase from archaebacteria
This product is licensed under one or more U.S. Patents Nos. 5,500,363 and 5,352,778 or corresponding foreign patents.

Thermostable polymerase mixtures
This product is licensed under one U.S. Patent No. 5,436,149 or corresponding foreign patents owned by Takara Bio, Inc.

Strep-tag technology
This product is manufactured under the license for Strep-tag® technology covered by US patents Nos. 5,506,121, 6,103,493 and foreign counterparts.

Homing endonuclease I-SceI
This product is licensed under one or more U.S. Patents No. US 5,474,896, US 5,866,361, US 5 792 632 or corresponding foreign patents.

Nucleic acid marker ladder for estimating mass
Purchase of this product includes a limited license under U.S. Patent Numbers 5,834,201, 6,680,378, and/or 7,132,520 to use this product for internal research purposes only.

Bsm DNA Polymerase
This product is patent pending with rights co-owned by K.K. DNAFORM and RIKEN, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research.

PCR Product Clean-up Prior to Sequencing (Exonuclease I, Alkaline phosphatases)
The purchase of this product allows the purchaser to use it for preparing amplified DNA fragments under a license from GE Healthcare of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,741,676 and 5,756,285 and other foreign patents.

Trademarks

CloneJET, DecaLabel, DoubleDigest, DreamTaq, DualColor, FastAP, FastRuler, GeneJET, GeneRuler, InsTAclone, MassRuler, NoLimits, O'GeneRuler, O'RangeRuler, PageBlue, PageRuler, PageSilver, Premium, ProteoBlock, ProteoJET, PyroStart, REsearch, REviewer, RevertAid, RiboLock, RiboRuler, SensiBlot, Spectra, Tango, TopVision, TranscriptAid, TransformAid, TriTrack, TrueStart, TurboFect, ZipRuler are trademarks of Fermentas.

 

FastDigest, Maxima and PureExtreme are registered trademarks of Fermentas.

 

ABI PRISM is a registered trademark and StepOne is a trademark of Applera Corporation.
Cy, Ficoll, and Sephadex are registered trademarks of GE Healthcare.
DH5α and DH5αF' are registered trademarks of Life Technologies, Inc.
Elugent is a trademark of Calbiochem Novabiochem, Inc.
ExGen is a trademark of Euromedex.
iCycler iQ is a registered trademark and iQ5, MyiQ, and Ready Gel are trademarks of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
LabChip is a registered trademark of Caliper Life Sciences, Inc.
LightCycler is a registered trademark and GeneAmp is a trademark of Roche Diagnostics GmbH.
Mastercycler is a registered trademark of Eppendorf AG.
Nonidet is a trademark of Shell Chemical Co.
Norit is a registered trademark of American Norit Company.
Novex and NuPAGE are registered trademarks of Invitrogen Corporation.
Mx3000P, Mx3005P and pBluescript are registered trademarks and Mx4000 is a trademark of Stratagene, Inc.
Rotor-Gene is a registered trademark of Corbett Research Pty Ltd.
Saran Wrap is a trademark of Asahi Kasei.
SmartCycler is a registered trademark of Cepheid Corporation.
Strep-tag and Strep-Tactin are registered trademarks of Institut fur Bioanalytic GmbH.
SYBR is a registered trademark of Molecular Probes, Inc.
TaqMan is a registered trademark of Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
Triton X-100 is a registered trademark of Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation.
Tween is a registered trademark of ICI America, Inc.
Whatman is a registered trademark of Whatman Ltd.