Board Upheld In Dispute Between Universities, Genomic Research Center

Mealey's (September 11, 2018, 9:13 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A determination by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that there is no interference-in-fact between a patent application by the University of California (UC) and the claims of 12 patents and one application owned by a genomic research center and two other universities was not erroneous, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 10 (Regents of the University of California, et al. v. The Broad Institute Inc., et al., No. 17-1907, Fed. Cir.)....