By Kevin E. Noonan — Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board denied two requests by Junior Party University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (hereinafter, “CVC”) in Interference No. 106,115. In the first, CVC asked a conference call to discuss its renewed request for leave to file a motion against Senior Party The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University (hereinafter, “Broad”) that alleged inequitable conduct. This is a motion for which leave had been requested in this interference (see “CRISPR Interference Parties Propose Motions”) as well as in prior Interference No. 105,048 (see…
