Oral Hearing in Interference No. 106,127

By Kevin E. Noonan — The PTAB held an Oral Hearing between Junior Party the University of California, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") and Senior Party ToolGen on September 12th, bringing to a close proceedings in the Preliminary Motions phase of Interference No. 106,127. As a reminder, the parties had filed the following motions at issue at the hearing: For CVC, Substantive Motion No. 1 for priority benefit to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/652,086, filed May 25, 2012 ("P1"), U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/716,256, filed October 19, 2012, ("P2"), and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/757,640, filed…