By Kevin E. Noonan — On March 16th, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) filed its Opposition to Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 filed on December 3rd by Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich. To recap, Sigma-Aldrich’s Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 asked the Board to deny Broad benefit of its U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/736,527, filed December 12, 2012 (termed "P1"), pursuant to 37 C.F.R. § 41.121(a)(1) and S.O. ¶¶ 121 and 208.4.2. The basis for Sigma-Aldrich’s motion was that this application does not disclose a constructive reduction to practice of an embodiment within the scope of…
