USPTO rules Broad owns CRISPR animal cell editing patents

Patents core to the breakthrough gene-editing technology CRISPR belong to the University of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Broad Institute, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has ruled.

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