Preliminary injunctions are strong medicine in patent infringement cases. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit seemed ready to uphold one Thursday in a San Francisco case involving gene sequencing technology.

Federal Circuit Judges Kathleen O’Malley and Evan Wallach sounded convinced that U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California didn’t err when he blocked Qiagen N.V. last summer from selling its GeneReader machines in the United States.

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