A U.S. tribunal overseeing patent disputes ruled on Monday that patents on the breakthrough gene-editing technology known as CRISPR belong to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's decision is a defeat for the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna and Nobel Prize-winning researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier.
The technology is being tested in clinical trials to potentially help cure diseases caused by genetic mutations and abnormalities. Broad, however, said its 2014 patent was distinct from the earlier invention because it concerned the use of CRISPR in so-called eukaryotic cells, such as for genome editing.
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