Broad Files Reply to CVC’s Opposition to Broad’s Contingent Motion to Correct Inventorship

By Kevin E. Noonan — Last month, Senior Party The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University (hereinafter, “Broad”) filed its reply to an opposition to Broad’s motion to correct inventorship filed by Junior Party University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (hereinafter, “CVC”), which was filed as a contingent motion in response to CVC’s Substantive Motion No. 3 under 37 C.F.R. § 41.121(a)(1) asking for judgment of unpatentability for all claims in interference under 35 U.S.C. § 102(f) or (if post-AIA) 35 U.S.C. § 115(a) for “failure to name all inventors of the alleged…