The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today granted U.S. Patent 10,227,611 to Jennifer Doudna, Martin Jinek, Krzysztof Chylinski, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, the patent entitled "Methods and compositions for RNA-directed...more
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted U.S. Patent No. 10,113,167 today, October 30, 2018, to the University of California/Berkeley, directed to an aspect of its CRISPR technology (where CRISPR is an acronym for...more
Ulrich (Uli) Laemmli, an illustrious professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, developer of SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate)-polyacrylamide electrophoresis (PAGE) for separating proteins, and responsible for identifying...more
Federal Circuit Affirms PTAB in Appeal of CRISPR Interference -
Barring the unlikely event that the Federal Circuit rehears en banc today's decision in Regents of the University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. (or,...more
On Monday, September 10, 2018, the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in the University of California’s (“California”) appeal of the decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) that there is no...more
The interference between the Broad Institute and the University of California/Berkeley has been in the spotlight over the past year. But there have been other skirmishes between the parties, each of which has recently been...more
The University of California/Berkeley filed its opening brief to the Federal Circuit last week, asking that Court to overturn the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision that there was no interference-in-fact between...more
In February, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rendered judgment that there was no interference-in-fact between the claims in interference between the Regents of the University...more
On February 15, 2017, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rendered judgment that there was no interference-in-fact between the claims in interference between the Regents of the...more