By Kevin E. Noonan — On February 18th, Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich filed its Opposition to Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 4* from the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC"), Junior Party in Interference No. 106,132, wherein CVC moved to add Senior Party Sigma-Aldrich’s U.S. Patent Nos. 10,731,181 and 10,745,716 to the interference and designate claims 1-17 of the ‘181 patent and claims 2-4, 11, 14, 21, and 22 of the ‘716 patent as corresponding to the Count, pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(i) and 41.208(a)(2) and Standing Order ("SO") 203.2. The basis for CVC’s…
