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Life Technologies

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Life Technologies

Summary

Life Technologies is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (427 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Life Technologies is in the country of United States[3].
  • Life Technologies is in the country of GB[4].
  • Life Technologies is in the country of US[5].
  • Life Technologies's instance of is recorded as business[6].
  • Life Technologies's instance of is recorded as enterprise[7].
  • Life Technologies's instance of is recorded as biotechnology company[8].
  • Life Technologies's instance of is recorded as public company[9].
  • Life Technologies followed Applied Biosystems[10].
  • Life Technologies followed Invitrogen[11].
  • Life Technologies's headquarters location is recorded as Carlsbad[12].
  • January 1, 2008 marks the founding of Life Technologies[13].
  • 1983-05-13 marks the founding of Life Technologies[14].
  • 1997-05-21 marks the founding of Life Technologies[15].
  • Life Technologies's parent organization or unit is recorded as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.[16].
  • Life Technologies's parent organization or unit is recorded as Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.[17].
  • Life Technologies's official website is recorded as http://www.lifetechnologies.com[18].
  • Life Technologies's legal form is recorded as Delaware corporation[19].
  • Life Technologies's legal form is recorded as H0PO[20].
  • Life Technologies's legal form is recorded as XTIQ[21].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): ZX5LQJBHZ3NFEMZ34U07[22]

  • Registered legal name: Life Technologies Corporation[23]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[24]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[25]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[26]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[27]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[28]

  • Entity created: 1997-05-21[29]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-10-23[30]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-06-25[31]

  • LEI next renewal: 2025-06-25[32]

  • Managing LOU: 529900T8BM49AURSDO55[33]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[34]

  • Authority entity ID: 2753431[35]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[36]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include January 1, 2008[13], 1983-05-13[14], and 1997-05-21[15].

Identity

Predecessors include Applied Biosystems[10] and Invitrogen[11].

Operations

Life Technologies's headquarters location is recorded as Carlsbad[12]. Parent organizations include Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.[16], a business[37], in United States[38], founded in 2006[39], headquartered in Waltham[40].

Why It Matters

Life Technologies ranks in the top 4% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (427 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . genomeweb.com. genomeweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . genomeweb.com. genomeweb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
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    Stock exchange → Nasdaq
    Parent organization or unit → Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
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