CRISPR webinar: HGF discusses IP landscape
LSIPR and law firm HGF held a webinar yesterday focusing on CRISPR and how to navigate the IP landscape.
The two presenters from HGF, Dr Claire Irvine and Catherine Coombes, covered multiple angles on this groundbreaking technology, including the science behind it and the named inventors for the technology.
The panellists also spoke in detail about licensingin European countries, among other issues.
In the US, a CRISPR patent dispute is continuing with an appeal from the University of California (UC), Berkeley in a case against the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT’s patents concerning the technology.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled in February that the Broad’s patents concerning CRISPR do not interfere with patent claims filed by UC.
The case was referred to in the presentation as potentially being “the biggest patentability mess ever”.
To watch the webinar, click here. The full presentation is also available on demand.
