By Kevin E. Noonan — On May 28th, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, “Broad”) filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 in CRISPR Interference No. 106,126 (where ToolGen is the Senior Party). While this Motion shares many similarities to a similar motion filed in Broad’s interference against the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier; Junior Party and collectively, “CVC”), there are significant differences in the proposed Count 2 in this interference and the proposed Count 2 proposed in the ‘115 Interference (wherein the Board denied Broad’s motion in that interference)….
