On August 16th, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board rescheduled back-to-back oral hearings for interferences between ToolGen Inc. (Senior Party) and Junior Party The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The President and Fellows of Harvard College (collectively, "Broad," Interference No. 106,126) and Junior Party The Regents of the University of California, University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC," Interference No. 106,127). In the '126 Interference, the hearing will commence at 1:00 pm EDT on September 12th, and for the '127 interference, the hearing will start at 3:00 pm EDT that day. The hearings will be conducted by telephone. In the Notices in each interference, the Board’s Order stated that postponement was at Senior Party ToolGen’s request.
Interested members of the public may be granted access by request sent to PTABHearings@uspto.gov at least five business days prior to the hearing date.
The issues to be discussed can be found on the PTAB website and in several prior Patent Docs posts.
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