Abaxis to get $17M in settlement with Cepheid

Medical products maker Abaxis Inc. will get $17.25 million in a settlement with Cepheid Inc. Sunnyvale-based Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD) will pay the money to Union City-based Abaxis (NASDAQ: ABAX) without admitting wrongdoing, but to "terminate all pending and future claims connected with the litigation." The dispute, in which both companies made claims and counterclaims, concerned several patents held by Abaxis over reagent and chemical compositions and processes.