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Personalis settles patent litigation with Foresight, grants license for MRD tests, receives tiered royalties
Personalis, Inc.
- Settled pending infringement claims and IPR proceedings with Foresight Diagnostics.
- Foresight gets non-exclusive license under Personalis patents for WGS-based MRD tests using phased variants.
- Foresight to pay low-single digit tiered royalty on net sales of licensed products/services.
- Upon a change of control involving specified acquirers, a low single-digit million one-time fee and slight royalty rate increase apply.
- License is perpetual except for patent challenge termination; each party releases claims and covenants not to sue on CNS patents.