Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-29 15:20:00 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:20:59 16 hours ago

Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe
"MIT" Technology Review ^ | September 25, 2024 | By Antonio Regaladoarchive

Posted on 09/29/2024 7:53:49 AM PDT by xoxox

There’s a surprise twist in the battle to control genome editing.

In the decade-long fight to control CRISPR, the super-tool for modifying DNA, it’s been common for lawyers to try to overturn patents held by competitors by pointing out errors or inconsistencies.

But now, in a surprise twist, the team that earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing CRISPR is asking to cancel two of their own seminal patents, MIT Technology Review has learned. The decision could affect who gets to collect the lucrative licensing fees on using the technology.

The request to withdraw the pair of European patents, by lawyers for Nobelists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, comes after a damaging August opinion from a European technical appeals board, which ruled that the duo’s earliest patent filing didn’t explain CRISPR well enough for other scientists to use it and doesn’t count as a proper invention.

The Nobel laureates’ lawyers say the decision is so wrong and unfair that they have no choice but to preemptively cancel their patents, a scorched-earth tactic whose aim is to prevent the unfavorable legal finding from being recorded as the reason.

(Excerpt) Read more at technologyreview.com ...

TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Science
KEYWORDS: chemistry; crispr; emmanuelecharpentier; eu; europeanunion; genealogy; helixmakemineadouble; jenniferdoudna; nobelprize; patents

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you.

The decision could affect who gets to collect the lucrative licensing fees on using the technology.

Indeed.

1 posted on 09/29/2024 7:53:49 AM PDT by xoxox

To: xoxox

It appears the cancel the patents move might flush out the darker money interests in Europe that were attempting to have the patents scuttled in Europe.

2 posted on 09/29/2024 8:08:39 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)

To: xoxox

I like my chicken extra-CRISPR.

3 posted on 09/29/2024 8:13:47 AM PDT by fruser1

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Read Entire Article