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25 May 2021EuropeMuireann Bolger

UC Berkeley loses CRISPR patent at EPO

The University of California Berkeley (UCB) has lost a CRISPR patent in Europe in the latest twist in the long-running IP saga over the gene-editing technology.

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28 March 2017 The European Patent Office has revealed its intention to grant a patent covering the CRISPR gene-editing technology to the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and inventor Emmanuelle Charpentier.

Broad hits out at UC Berkeley in latest CRISPR battle

2 August 2019 Tensions appear to be running high in the dispute between the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) over which first invented the CRISPR gene-editing technology.

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EPO to grant UC, Berkeley CRISPR patent

28 March 2017 The European Patent Office has revealed its intention to grant a patent covering the CRISPR gene-editing technology to the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and inventor Emmanuelle Charpentier.

Broad hits out at UC Berkeley in latest CRISPR battle

2 August 2019 Tensions appear to be running high in the dispute between the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) over which first invented the CRISPR gene-editing technology.

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