By Kevin E. Noonan — For those with long memories, last August the Patent Trial and Appeal Board received proposed motions from the parties (University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Junior Party, and The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University, Senior Party) in Interference No. 106,115. Thereafter, the Board authorized the parties to file some but not all of these motions; the Decision on these Motions was issued by the Board on September 10th (see “PTAB Decides Parties’ Motions in CRISPR Interference”). But several of each parties’ motions were deferred until the priority…
