UC Berkeley challenges decision that CRISPR patents belong to Broad Institute

The University of California, Berkeley is appealing a ruling that the disputed patents on the gene-editing tool CRISPR belong to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. This means the heated battle over who owns one of the most revolutionary biotech inventions of our time will likely continue for months or even years from now.Last February, the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled that the patents owned by the Broad are different enough from the ones UC Berkeley applied for that the Broad pate