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DLA Piper

The Battle for CRISPR: Federal Circuit Draws a Crisp Line Between Conception and Reduction to Practice

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The dispute over who invented CRISPR-Cas9 (CRISPR), a gene-editing technology awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has been one of the most closely watched legal battles in the world of biotechnology. For more than a...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

SNIPR Technologies Ltd. v. Rockefeller University (Fed. Cir. 2023)

One of the wonderful (as in, it makes one wonder) and frustrating (which needs no explanation) aspects of patent law is that just when you think a question is settled it either isn't or the conventional interpretation is...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

PTAB Holds for Broad in CRISPR Interference: The Reasoning

Inventorship determinations have been called, in some of their incarnations, "one of the muddiest concepts in the muddy metaphysics of patent law."  Mueller Brass Co. v. Reading Indus., 352 F. Supp. 1357, 1372 (E.D. Pa....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

SNIPR Technologies Ltd. v. The Rockefeller University (PTAB 2021)

It is well to recall that the battle over inventorship and thus ownership of CRISPR technology is not limited to the parties in the various interferences surrounding the Doudna and Zhang patents and applications (see "CRISPR...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Broad Files Motion Opposing CVC Motion for Misjoinder of Inventorship under 35 U.S.C. § 102(f)

Last December, Junior Party University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (hereinafter, "CVC") filed its Substantive Motion No. 3 under 37 C.F.R. § 41.121(a)(1) asking for judgment of...more

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