ML wins in Federal Circuit for Nobel Prize winning inventors

In a victory for our clients, the Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial and Appeals Board made numerous legal errors in determining our clients were not the first to invent use of "CRISPR" gene-editing technology in eukaryotic (e.g., plant and animal) cells. In Regents of the University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc., ML represented The Regents of the University of California, University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier. Jennifer Doudna of the University of California and Emmanuelle Charpentier of the University of Vienna were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing CRISPR as a method for gene editing. Read our client's merits brief and the opinion.