Affymetrix has established a licensing program to make its intellectual property estate accessible on reasonable terms to stimulate the broad commercialization of genome analysis technologies.

The program makes some recently issued patents, as well as early patents that established Affymetrix as the pioneer in microarrays, available for licensing and, in selected areas, for sale, to those using and commercializing microarray-centered technologies.

The patents include intellectual property in areas such as DNA and protein arrays, array manufacturing, array packaging and housing, scanner/detector technology, microfluidics, beads, and other areas related to genomic analysis.

The Affymetrix licensing portfolio includes patents in the following general areas:

Arrays of biological polymers on various substrates at various
densities

Use of bar codes with biological polymer arrays or array packages

Scanning technology and associated instrumentation and software

Microfluidics related to experimentation using microarrays, assays and reagents and bead-related products and methods including:

Other related Affymetrix patents may be of interest, and are available for licensing, to organizations commercializing and using bead technology, designing microarrays, manufacturing or using microarrays, detecting and analyzing signals from microarrays, employing bioinformatics and software to analyze microarrays, and other array-related areas.

Organizations commercializing these technologies, or those desiring to, are invited to contact Affymetrix Licensing for more details at licensing@affymetrix.com