CRISPR: Hearing all about it

The Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) have set aside four-and-a-half days in January 2020 for the hearing in T0844/18, the first appeal relating to CRISPR Cas9 technology in eukaryotes. The central discussion in this hearing will be about the formal requirements for claiming priority as this is an appeal by the Broad Institute, MIT and Harvard (Broad et al) to the revocation of their lead patent EP2771468.