CRISPR – Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose

February 20, 2018

On January 18, 2018, the European Patent Office (EPO) revoked European Patent No. 2,771,468 (“the ‘468 patent”),1 one of the original CRISPR patents. The ‘468 patent was ultimately revoked by the European Patent Office because the Broad Institute could not establish a right of priority to their earliest U.S. Applications.2 CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic… Read more »