By Kevin E. Noonan — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) entered an Order on Tuesday regarding the motion by Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, “CVC”) in Interference No. 106,115, for leave to subpoena discovery from Luciano Marraffini and Shuailiang Lin, neither of whom is a party to this interference against Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collectively, “Broad”). Specifically, CVC asserted in its motion under 37 C.F.R. § 41.156(a) that these subpoenas were necessary because these witnesses each possessed knowledge from their…
