The Broad wins an­oth­er — per­haps fi­nal — bat­tle in the war over Feng Zhang's CRISPR patents

Ed­i­tas $ED­IT and its ri­vals’ long run­ning le­gal bat­tle over the IP for the CRISPR/Cas9 tech used to ed­it genes may well be over.

A fed­er­al ap­peals court has ruled in fa­vor of the Broad In­sti­tute, con­firm­ing an ear­li­er US patent board de­ci­sion that their patents from the lab of in­ves­ti­ga­tor Feng Zhang did not “in­ter­fere” with the ones sought by UC.

And the judges came down so solid­ly in fa­vor of the Broad that there’s like­ly lit­tle hope for any con­tin­u­ing ap­peals moves — though the UC sys­tem quick­ly put out a state­ment say­ing they’re still eval­u­at­ing their op­tions on lit­i­gat­ing the is­sue.

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