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Licensing and Business Development

Molecular Probes is recognized as the leading developer of fluorescence-based reagents and assay techniques, worldwide. We have extensive patent coverage for many of our novel technologies, and several of these patents are now available for license. We are looking for partners who can expand our marketing and technical capabilities, and welcome inquiries at probesbusdev@invitrogen.com.

Technologies that are available for license include:

  • Highly sensitive nucleic acid stains for gels, cells, solutions, capillary and flow cytometric detection
  • Sensitive protein stains for gels, solutions, and capillary electrophoresis
  • Bright fluorescent labels for proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, polysaccharides and small molecules
  • Efficient fluorescence quencher dyes for coupling to many biological materials
  • Microspheres that can be customized to have the fluorescence properties of your choice
  • Highly selective fluorescent stains for organelles
  • One-step fluorescence-based assays for microbial and mammalian cell viability
  • Fluorogenic enzyme substrates for microplate or solution assays and for cell- or tissue-based detection

We have close relationships with a number of instrument companies and can work with your company to match your detection instrumentation with our proprietary technology. We can develop kits, reagents or assays for you under contract or can advise you on how to best do your own assay development using our reagents. Our ~20 years of protein conjugation experience give us the expertise to prepare superior labeled antibodies or other proteins for you under license, using our proprietary dyes. Our experience in the synthesis of fluorescent organic research chemicals is unsurpassed by any other company in the field today. The capabilities of our bioscientists and organic chemists can be put to work for you — working to make your company stronger, your product line more complete, and your assays more sensitive. Molecular Probes has received ISO 9001:2000 certification and is an experienced supplier of various reagents to manufacturers.

Licensed Suppliers of Primary Antibody Conjugates

The companies listed below are licensed under Molecular Probes patents and trademarks to provide customers with high-quality antibody conjugates of a number of our proprietary dyes. The "View License Table" links in the table below lead you to lists of dyes and tandems that these companies can provide to you, as primary antibody conjugates.

Company Alexa Fluor Dyes
View License Table		 Tandems
View License Table
BD Biosciences check  
Beckman Coulter Inc. check check
BioLegend check  
Biosource check  
Caltag check check
Cell Signaling Technology check  
Chemicon check check
eBioscience check  
EXBIO Praha check  
Serotec Ltd. check  

Licensed Suppliers of Custom Oligonucleotide Conjugates

The companies listed below are licensed under Molecular Probes patents and trademarks to provide customers with high-quality custom oligonucleotide conjugates. The "View License Table" links in the table below lead you to lists of licensed dyes that these companies can couple to oligonucleotides for you. The "View other labels" link leads you to a list of other reagents that can be used to prepare oligonucleotide conjugates, without a license.

To ensure continuity of supply, we recommend that researchers order custom oligonucleotide sequences labeled with our proprietary dyes from authorized suppliers. Only those companies listed below are licensed under Molecular Probes' patents and trademarks to offer custom oligonucleotide labeling using our unique reactive dyes.

Company Alexa Fluor Dyes
View License Table		 Other Premium Fluorophores
View License Table		 Quenchers
View License Table		 Other Labels
View Other Labels
Biomers.net GmbH check check   check
Biosearch Technologies, Inc.   check   check
DNA Technology check check   check
Eurogentec check check   check
Genelink check check   check
IBA check check   check
Integrated DNA Technologies check check check check
Japan BioServices Co. Ltd. check check   check
MegaBases, Inc
E-mail: klngai@earthlink.net		   check check check
Oligos Etc.   check   check
Phoenix BioTechnologies check check   check
Qiagen checkcheck   check
Proligo LLC   check   check
SIGMA-GENOSYS check check   check
Synthegen check check   check
Thermo Electron Molecular Biology   check   check
TIB MOLBIOL check check   check
TriLink BioTechnologies check check check check

Licensed Suppliers of Custom Peptide Conjugates

The companies listed below are licensed under Molecular Probes patents and trademarks to provide customers with high-quality custom peptide conjugates. The "View License Table" links in the table below lead you to lists of licensed dyes that these companies can couple to peptides for you. The "View other labels" link leads you to a list of other reagents that can be used to prepare peptide conjugates, without a license.

Company Alexa Fluor Dyes
View License Table		 Other Premium Fluorophores
View License Table		 Quenchers
View License Table		 Other Labels
View Other Labels
MIMOTOPES check check check check
Cambridge Research Biochemicals check check check check

Extra Income for your Laboratory

Distributing your Research Products through Molecular Probes

Although >90% of Molecular Probes' products are manufactured in-house, we also distribute high purity reagents developed by academic, industrial or government laboratories in the course of their research. You supply us with materials developed in your laboratory and we will package, market and distribute them. Our Handbook of Fluorescent Probes and Research Products and our prodigious Web site (http://probes.invitrogen.com) provide unparalleled access to users of biological detection reagents in the worldwide research community. We are constantly seeking new reagents to distribute, including (but not limited to):

  • fluorescent probes of almost any kind
  • monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies
  • enzymes, enzyme substrates and inhibitors
  • peptides, growth factors and cytokines
  • nucleotides and nucleotide analogs

How to Get Started

If you can supply Molecular Probes with reagents for which there are current or foreseeable demands from other researchers, please send e-mail to Business Development (probesbusdev@invitrogen.com) giving the information listed below. We will enter into a non-disclosure agreement if requested. A minimum five-year supply commitment is required.

  • Your name, postal and E-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers
  • A description of the material (including name and chemical structure (if applicable))
  • A description of the materials' application including published references (if available)
  • Details of any patents or patent applications pertinent to this material

Molecular Probes will respond directly with further details, contract and payment terms. We look forward to hearing from you.