Outcome of Hearings on CRISPR Patents Tough to Predict - McDermott Will & Emery

Outcome of Hearings on CRISPR Patents Tough to Predict

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Robert Underwood called it a “dicey exercise” to try to predict the outcome of a hearing at the US Patent and Trademark Office regarding two patents for clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), a pivotal new life sciences genetic technology.