SAN DIEGO, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SEQUENOM, Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNM - News) today announced that it has secured exclusive rights in the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia to intellectual property for non-invasive prenatal gender testing through a licensing agreement with Isis Innovation Ltd., the technology transfer company of the University of Oxford. These intellectual property rights expand the scope of an earlier licensing agreement between Sequenom and Isis Innovation Ltd. announced in October 2005, under which Sequenom exclusively licensed intellectual property rights for non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnostic testing on fetal nucleic acids derived from maternal plasma or serum.
