Judges Side with Broad Institute in CRISPR Patent Dispute

A three-judge panel of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has ruled in favor of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the bitter legal battle royal with University of California (UC), Berkeley, over who invented CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) gene-editing technology.The PTAB panel found “no interference in fact” between 12 patents related to CRISPR technology that list as inventor Feng Zhang, Ph.D., of the Broad Institute, and a patent ap