FOSTER CITY, Calif. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, and Agilent Technologies (NYSE:A) today announced that they have entered into a settlement agreement resolving patent infringement lawsuits originally filed by Applera against Stratagene (acquired by Agilent in 2007), alleging infringement of Applera’s real-time thermal cycler instrument patents. The lawsuits resulted in injunctions in Germany and the Netherlands and were pending in the U.S. and France.