Patent Litigation, CRISPR, Written Descriptions

In CRISPR Patent Dispute, the Federal Circuit Clarifies the Conception and Written Description Standards

Haug Partners LLP on 7/9/2025

On May 12, 2025, the Federal Circuit issued a decision in Regents of the Univ. of California v. Broad Inst., Inc.1 concerning the ongoing priority dispute relating to competing inventor groups for the CRISPR-Cas9 eukaryotic...more

Take That Conception Out of the Oven – It’s CRISPR Even If the Cook Doesn’t Know

McDermott Will & Schulte on 5/23/2025

Addressing the distinction between conception and reduction to practice and the requirement for written description in the unpredictable arts, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit explained that proof of conception...more

Regents of the University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2025) - Update

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/14/2025

Only a few days after the one-year anniversary of hearing oral argument, the Federal Circuit handed down its decision in Regents of the University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc. on Monday. The opinion reviewed the...more

Junior Party Broad Files Reply to Sigma-Aldrich Opposition to Broad Contingent Motion No. 2

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 5/31/2022

On December 3rd, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) filed its Contingent Preliminary Motion No. 2 in Interference No. 106,133 (which names Sigma-Aldrich as Senior Party),...more

[Event] 20th Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents - June 2nd - 3rd, New York, NY

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 5/12/2022

ACI’s Advanced Summit on Life Sciences Patents is back in person on June 2–3 in New York City. Our reimagined 2022 conference will provide practical insights on how to implement bullet-proof patent prosecution tactics,...more

Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich Files Opposition to Broad Contingent Motion No. 2

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 4/22/2022