Broad Files Reply to ToolGen Opposition to Broad’s Contingent Preliminary Motion No. 2

By Kevin E. Noonan — On May 28th, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University and MIT (collectively, “Broad”) filed its Preliminary Motion No. 2 in CRISPR Interference No. 106,126 (where ToolGen is the Senior Party), contingent on the Board’s grant of Broad’s Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 to substitute (in part) a new Count No. 2 in place of Count 1 in the ‘126 Interference as instituted (see “Broad Files Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 in CRISPR Interference”). In its Motion No. 2, Broad asked the Board to add their U.S. Application Nos. 15/160,710 (having allowable claims 1, 40,…