By Kevin E. Noonan — In the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision on motions issued September 10th in Interference No. 106,115 (see “PTAB Decides Parties’ Motions in CRISPR Interference”) between Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, “Broad”) and Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, “CVC”), the Board denied Broad’s Motion No. 3 to De-designate Claims as Not Corresponding to Count No. 1. Broad’s brief parsed its claims into three categories of claims that it argued do not correspond to the Count, depending on…
