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Patent office reopens major CRISPR battle between Broad Institute and Univ. of California

The patent office reopened a fight between the Broad Institute and the University of California over who invented CRISPR.

The U.S. patent office has declared an interference between a dozen key patents awarded to the Broad Institute on the genome-editing technology CRISPR and 10 CRISPR patent applications submitted by the University of California and its partners, according to documents posted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

The declaration of an interference means that the patent office has determined that one or more patent applications

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