By Kevin E. Noonan — On November 19th, Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 3 in Interference No. 106,132 (which names Sigma-Aldrich as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to substitute the Count of the interference pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(iii) and 41.208(a)(1). The present Count is set forth in the alternative either as Claim 156 on CVC’s application-in-interference No. 15/981,807 (which claim also has been a portion of the Count in Interference No. 106,127 naming ToolGen as Senior Party)…
