Patent Trial and Appeal Board Set Date for Oral Hearing in Interference No. 106,115

By Kevin E. Noonan — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has set February 4th at 1:00 pm EST for the Oral Hearing in the Priority Phase of Interference No. 106,115 between the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, "Broad") as Senior Party and the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") as Junior Party. The hearing will be virtual (by telephone, audio only) and will be available to the public upon request under 37 C.F.R. § 41.124(c). The Parties will each have 20 minutes for argument, and each party will be able to…