CRISPR Housekeeping

By Kevin E. Noonan — Since the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rendered its decisions on Motions in Interference No. 106,115, 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”) have filed a number of miscellaneous motions, and the Board has issued several Orders in response. The most significant of these was a joint stipulation to extend Time Periods 11-13, each by a week. The Board granted this request under 37 C.F.R. § 41.104(c), and thus the…