By Kevin E. Noonan — On December 3rd, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) filed its Contingent Preliminary Motion No. 2 in Interference No. 106,133 (which names Sigma-Aldrich as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to add claims 52-54 of Broad Application No. 16/177,403 to the interference, pursuant to the provisions of 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(i) and 41.208 and Standing Order ¶ 203.2. The motion was contingent on the Board granting Broad’s Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 to substitute the Count. On March 16th, Sigma-Aldrich filed its Opposition and on April 26th…
