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Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Troubling Trend of “Self” Revocation In the CRISPR Space Continues in Europe

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Less than two months after CVC made the surprising move to revoke two of its seminal European CRISPR patents, Sigma-Aldrich has done it too. While the facts that led to Sigma’s “self” revocation may be different than CVC’s,...more

A&O Shearman

UPC denies third party access to revocation action and evidence

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In Astellas v. Osaka University (UPC_CFI_75/2023), by decision of 21 September 2023, the UPC Munich Central Division denied a third party access to the case file, specifically to Astellas’ revocation action, which was...more

Hogan Lovells

Three reasons why you might consider to opt-out your patents from the UPC system

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The option to "opt-out" from the new UPC system gives patent owners the opportunity to declare, according to Art. 83(3) UPCA, that the UPC shall not have competence for litigations concerning a European patent. If an...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Broad Institute Loses Appeal in European Patent Office, Patents Remain Revoked

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Earlier this year, and almost one year to the day (January 17, 2019) that the Opposition Division (OD) of the European Patent Office revoked in its entirety European Patent No. EP 2771468, the Technical Board of Appeal...more

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