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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Team including UC Berkeley researcher awarded patent on CRISPR-Cas9 use in all cells amid pending appeal

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The patent is based on the enzyme system CRISPR-Cas9, which was discovered in 2012 by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier.
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Monday, April 30, 2018

University of California fights for CRISPR patent rights against Broad Institute, Harvard, MIT

CRISPR-Cas9, the gene-editing technology co-invented by a UC Berkeley professor, is again in the courts, as the University of California fights the Broad Institute, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, over patent rights that could yield billions.
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Monday, October 30, 2017

Patent dispute for CRISPR-Cas9 continues, Broad Institute denies UC claims

The Broad Institute filed a brief Wednesday denying many of the University of California’s patent claims on CRISPR-Cas9, a groundbreaking gene editing technology.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, July 30, 2017

UC files opening brief to appeal CRISPR-Cas9 patent decision

Last week, the University of California filed an opening brief to appeal a decision by the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) which denied UC patent claims for CRISPR-Cas9 technology in eukaryotic cells.
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Research & Ideas

Thursday, March 2, 2017

MIT professor and co-discoverer of CRISPR Feng Zhang speaks at Berkeley Forum event

The Anna Head Alumnae Hall at UC Berkeley was packed with more than 200 attendees Wednesday evening as Feng Zhang, professor of biomedical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-discoverer of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, spoke on campus about the revolutionary capacities of the biological mechanism.
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