CVC Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 3 To Add Claims in ToolGen Patent

By Kevin E. Noonan — On May 20th, 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. 106,127 (which names ToolGen as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to add claims in ToolGen’s U.S. Patent No. 10,851,380* to this interference, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(i) and 41.208(a)(2) and Standing Order ¶ 208.3.2. Relevant to CVC’s motion is the portion of the Count identical to Claim 85 of ToolGen’s priority application, U.S. provisional application No. 14/685,510: An isolated mammalian cell…