A form of intellectual property. The owners of a patent are granted a temporary monopoly over an invention (a right to exclude others from making, using or selling it) in exchange for detailed public disclosure of the invention
A Texas court has awarded $100 million more damages to a company whose patents for non-invasive prenatal testing technology were infringed by a competitor...
A chemically-modified DNA enzyme can be used to 'silence' a harmful gene mutation found in many types of cancers...
Patent laws could be used to restrict the use of genome editing technologies from being used to change the germline...
The US patent office has declared an 'interference' - re-opening the long-running dispute between the University of California (UC), Berkeley and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, over who invented CRISPR genome editing first...
The UK Patents Court has ruled that two separate non-invasive prenatal tests infringe patents licensed by the US firm Illumina...
The Broad Institute has filed arguments ahead of the upcoming CRISPR patent appeal hearing...
I'm glad to see a scientist engaging so strongly in public debate about the use of technology, rather than speculating on the sidelines...
The University of California has moved to appeal a decision of the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board over the use of CRISPR in eukaryotic cells...
The Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard will take part in an initiative to simplify licensing CRISPR genome editing technology to other organisations and institutions...
China's State Intellectual Property Office has granted the University of California a patent on CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology in the country.
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