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23 July 2019AmericasSarah Morgan

Sigma-Aldrich submits CRISPR petition at USPTO

Merck KGaA-owned Sigma-Aldrich has petitioned the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to open an interference proceeding between its own pending CRISPR-Cas9 patents and patents awarded to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).

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