CRISPR
13 May 2025 Court partially overturns PTAB decision favouring Broad Institute in the long-running gene-editing patent dispute | Case sent back to clarify invention conception | Third parties face "yet more delays" in a patent landscape that appears "constantly in flux".
14 December 2023
14 December 2023
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Americas
Will this year be defined by a concerted shift towards ‘One Health’? Simon Kiddle and Rebecca Tollervey of Mewburn Ellis explore.
Big Pharma
The search for clarity goes on as Broad gears up for another set of legal challenges, as Claire Irvine, partner at HGF, explains.
Americas
A former Johnson & Johnson IP counsel and a retired judge are among the speakers at Life Sciences IP Due Diligence, on November 29 and 30 in Boston, as LSIPR finds out.
Americas
Several recent cases from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit offer guidance on navigating the §101 legal framework with respect to CRISPR patent claims, as Pat Carson and Mira Atanassova Mulvaney of Kirkland & Ellis report.
Americas
Stephen Knight was selected in the LSIPR 50 2018 publication for his influence on the life sciences industry. He featured in the investment section, as LSIPR reports.
Biotechnology
As the Broad Institute faces a formidable task in defending its revoked CRISPR patent claims in a pending appeal at the EPO, European academics Jakob Wested, Timo Minssen, and Esther van Zimmeren are wondering whether some of the issues might be referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal.
Americas
Balancing a company’s duty to shareholders with the public responsibility to provide lifesaving treatments is a constant challenge, as Issi Rozen, chief business officer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, tells LSIPR.
Americas
As innovation in the CRISPR field continues across the world, questions are being asked about the role of regulating such a powerful tool, while discussions around licensing the technology continue, as LSIPR reports.
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20 July 2023 SNIPR Biome has five patents reinstated after court rules they cannot be subject to interference | Rockefeller University had challenged patents on pre-AIA, first-to-invent basis.
21 February 2023 Sherlock boosts IP portfolio with exclusive US rights to patent | Technology could be used to detect malaria, TB and COVID-19.
1 March 2022 Patents core to the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR belong to the University of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Broad Institute, the US Patent and Trademark Office has ruled.
1 June 2021 A CRISPR patent filed by scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier alongside the Regents of the University of California and the University of Vienna has been upheld by the Japan Patent Office.
25 May 2021 The University of California Berkeley has lost a CRISPR patent in Europe in the latest twist in the long-running IP saga over the gene-editing technology.
9 November 2020 The European Patent Office has released the long-awaited reasoning for its decision to uphold the revocation of a Broad Institute CRISPR/Cas9 patent.
In January this year, the EPO’s Board of Appeal concluded that the Broad’s patent, EP2,771,468, lacked novelty due to an invalid claim to priority.
The EPO dealt with three questions in its reasoning.
28 October 2020 Discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the CRISPR landscape and section 101 are top of mind for Eldora Ellison, director at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox.
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