By Kevin E. Noonan — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board heard oral argument under 37 C.F.R. § 41.124(c) on February 4th 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 was held by telephone and after a short delay for technical reasons transpired with each party having 20 minutes of argument. CVC as Junior Party argued first, represented by Eldora Ellison who reserved five minutes for rebuttal. Raymond…
