[IP Hot Topics Podcast] Innovation Conversations: Walter Isaacson, Part 1
Using AI to Build Cyber Resilience for Critical Infrastructure - "Cyber resilience serves as a literal survival strategy, offering a framework to detect threats, understand attacks, recover swiftly, and adapt to...more
In a long-awaited milestone in the gene therapy space, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two gene therapies to cure sickle cell disease (SCD). Soon thereafter these approvals, a key licensing agreement was...more
Gene therapy is part of a new wave of medicine that approaches disease treatment by addressing the root causes rather than focusing on treating or reducing symptoms. Currently, gene therapies are being developed for treatment...more
Are Automakers Making Sufficient Efforts to Protect Customer Data? With the ever-expanding Internet of Things, data privacy is a growing concern in today’s digital age. The automotive industry is no exception. The National...more
Hosted by American Conference Institute (ACI), the National Forum on IP, Funding and Tech Strategies for Novel Therapeutic Modalities and Gene Therapies will highlight leveraging technology, safeguarding IP, and securing...more
Complex, Customized CRISPR Combo Could Help Patients Cure Their Own Cancer - “In a small phase 1 clinical trial run by PACT Pharma, researchers edited the genes of 16 patients’ immune cells to work against their cancer,...more
Massachusetts-Based Background Check Company Creative Services Faces Multiple Lawsuits Over Data Breach - "'CSI determined that certain files dating from November 2018 to November 2021 may have been copied from their...more
CRISPR/Cas technology, also known as “genetic scissor”, is one of the most targeted and promising tools in gene technology. It allows targeted and extremely precise modification of the DNA in humans, animals, plants and...more
In April of 2021, we provided a three-part series relating to the IP and Competitive Landscape for the mRNA market. In this post we provide a 2021 year in review update on mRNA pioneers and key players and offer additional...more
El Salvador Buys 200 Bitcoins as the Digital Currency Becomes Legal Tender - "El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency, kicking off a radical monetary experiment that could pose risks to...more
PA Health Dept Sued; Investigation Looms, After Contact Tracing Breach "The PA health dept. is being sued, after employees of its vendor Insight Global set up an unsecured channel to share COVID-19 contact tracing data,...more
October 14th was a busy day at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for the current interference over CRISPR technology (No. 106,115). The Junior Party (the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna;...more
On September 23, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) issued a decision dismissing Sigma-Aldrich’s interference petition related to the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 biotechnology. The claims at issue in...more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) inventions have aided development in nearly every industry, but perhaps none more so than synthetic biology. For synthetic biology researchers, AI has developed into a vital tool to create cutting...more
Introduction - Although much of the reporting around CRISPR tends to focus on its cleavage based ability to knock out or repair targeted sequences of DNA in a genome, particularly for human therapeutic or agricultural...more
CRISPR Therapeutics and Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center (MGHCC) have entered into a two-year research collaboration and license option agreement to develop novel T-cell therapies for cancer. CRISPR/Cas9 gene...more
In an article published in American Journal of Human Genetics on 3 August 2017, an international group of 11 organisations with genetics expertise has issued a joint position statement, setting out 3 key positions on the...more
In a press release on 10 July 2017, the Broad Institute announced that is has, with joint patent owners Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rockefeller University, entered discussions about a...more