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Category: Patent Trial and Appeal Board
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Senior Party Toolgen and Junior Parties The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University (collectively, "Broad") in Interference No. 106,126 and University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") in Interference No. 106,127 each filed Lists of Proposed Motions that the Board considered recently…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Senior Party Toolgen and Junior Parties The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University (collectively, "Broad") in Interference No. 106,126 and University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") in Interference No. 106,127, each filed Lists of Proposed Motions that the Board considered last…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Senior Party Toolgen and Junior Parties The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University (collectively, "Broad") in Interference No. 106,126 and University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") in Interference No. 106,127 each filed Lists of Proposed Motions that the Board considered today…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board has declared interferences individually between Toolgen as Senior Party and as Junior Party the parties in the pending interference, Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, "Broad") and The University of California/Berkeley, the University of…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) entered an Order on Tuesday regarding the motion by Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") in Interference No. 106,115, for leave to subpoena discovery from Luciano Marraffini and Shuailiang Lin, neither of whom is…
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By Donald Zuhn –- After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its 14th annual list of top patent stories. For 2020, we identified eight stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) a significant impact on patent practitioners and…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — One of the most notable movie taglines, "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water," was used to market the sequel to the original summer blockbuster movie, Jaws. It is perhaps impossible to not think of that message upon learning that the Patent Trial and…
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By Donald Zuhn –- After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its 14th annual list of top patent stories. For 2020, we identified eight stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) a significant impact on patent practitioners and…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Motion practice continues in Interference No. 106,115 between Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, "Broad") and Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC"), with CVC filing on January 6th its Reply to Broad's opposition…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — In the latest development in Interference No. 106,115 between Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, "Broad") and Junior Party The University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC"), Broad filed its priority motion (which, as Senior Party they…
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