By Kevin E. Noonan — On June 21st,* the Patent Trial and Appeal Board declared two new interferences involving CRISPR technology. The first, Interference No. 106,132, named Sigma-Aldrich as Senior Party and the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") as Junior Party, while the second, Interference No. 106,133 named Sigma-Aldrich as Senior Party and the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, "Broad") as Junior Party. Each Interference names Sigma-Aldrich U.S. Application No. 15/456,204 as the involved application. In the ‘133 Interference, the following Broad patents are involved: • U.S. Patent No. 8,697,359 -…
