By Kevin E. Noonan — Last week, Junior Party The University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, “CVC”) filed its reply to Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, “Broad”) motion in opposition (see “Broad Files Motion in Opposition to CVC Priority Motion”) to CVC’s motion for priority in Interference No. 106,115. The Reply is (relatively) direct and to the point (motivated no doubt as much by the page limit in Reply briefs as to the rhetorical force of a short, pithy, to-the-point argument). (Although to be fair the…
