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Nobel prize awarded to Crispr-patent tussle party Charpentier and Doudna
By Joanna Applequist | Posted on October 7, 2020
The Nobel committee has announced that this year’s prize in Chemistry is awarded to Doudna and Charpentier for their groundbreaking research leading to the development of the Crispr-Cas 9 technology, often referred to as the gene scissors. The Crispr-Cas 9 technology was first published as a scientific paper in 2012 by Doudna and Charpentier. This...
Tags: Broad Institute, Crispr-Cas 9, Nobel, Patent, UC Berkley
The Crispr-Cas9 patent tussle continues: The case of UC Berkeley at the EPO
By Joanna Applequist | Posted on November 15, 2019
In Europe, we don’t do things the way the Americans do… Oral proceedings in the opposition against UC Berkeley’s (UC’s) main European patent EP2800811 are scheduled for all of three (!) days in February of 2020 at the European Patent Office (EPO). The opposition division’s (OD’s) preliminary and non-binding opinion, provided on the 30th of...
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