By Kevin E. Noonan — Captioned disarmingly as a Notice of Related Proceedings under 37 C.F.R. § 41.8(a)(1) and ¶ 8.2 of the Standing Order, Junior Party the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") somewhat boldly asserted in its June 6th filing that the Board no longer had jurisdiction over its applications-in-interference in Interference Nos. 106,127 and 106,132. The legal basis for this challenge (framed, appropriately, as a request), is that CVC appealed the Board’s decision in favor of granting priority to Broad Institute and colleagues in Interference No. 106,115 (see "PTAB Grants Priority…
