The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has issued a notice of extension of certain deadlines by party stipulation in the two interferences involving ToolGen Inc. as Senior Party (No. 106,126 with The Broad Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard College as Junior Party, and No. 106,127 naming the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier ("CVC") as Junior Party).

The deadlines for Time Periods 1-5 in the '126 Interference have been extended as follows:

TIME PERIOD 1 ................................................................9 April 2021
File motions                                                                                  28 May 2021
File (but serve one business day later) priority statements

TIME PERIOD 2 ................................................................14 May 2021
File responsive motions to motions filed in TIME PERIOD 1             22 June 2021

TIME PERIOD 3 ...............................................................25 June 2021
File oppositions to all motions                                                       30 July 2021

TIME PERIOD 4 ..............................................................6 August 2021
File all replies                                                                     10 September 2021

TIME PERIOD 5 .......................................................17 September 2021
File request for oral argument                                             24 September 2021
File motions to exclude
File observations

TIME PERIOD 6 ...........................................................8 October 2021
File oppositions to motions to exclude
File response to observations

TIME PERIOD 7 ..........................................................15 October 2021
File replies to oppositions to motions to exclude

DEFAULT ORAL ARGUMENT DATE ...................................................TBD

The deadlines for Time Periods 1-3 in the '127 Interference have been extended as follows:

TIME PERIOD 1 ................................................................9 April 2021
File motions                                                                                  20 May 2021
File (but serve one business day later) priority statements

TIME PERIOD 2 ................................................................14 May 2021
File responsive motions to motions filed in TIME PERIOD 1             11 June 2021

TIME PERIOD 3 ...............................................................25 June 2021
File oppositions to all motions                                                         1 July 2021

TIME PERIOD 4 ..............................................................6 August 2021
File all replies

TIME PERIOD 5 ........................................................17 September 2021
File request for oral argument
File motions to exclude
File observations

TIME PERIOD 6 .............................................................8 October 2021
File oppositions to motions to exclude
File response to observations

TIME PERIOD 7 ............................................................15 October 2021
File replies to oppositions to motions to exclude

DEFAULT ORAL ARGUMENT DATE .....................................................TBD

The Board's notice for each Interference contained no explanation for these changes other than the parties' stipulations.