No SCOTUS appeal for CRISPR patent battle

As expected, Regents of University of California did not file a petition for writ of certiorari by Monday's deadline, meaning its legal battle with Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard over ownership of foundational CRISPR-Cas9 claims will not yet head to the Supreme Court.

In September, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a no interference-in-fact decision made by the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The CAFC ruling ended patent interference proceedings brought by UC Regents and co-inventors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, and marked another victory for Broad and co-inventor Feng Zhang. ...