UC Berkeley Loses CRISPR Gene-Editing Patent Case

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🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In 2020, UC Berkeley scientist Jennifer Doudna, along with French scientist Emanuelle Charpentier, won a Nobel prize for her work on the revolutionary method for editing DNA known as CRISPR. But this week Doudna's lab at UC Berkeley lost its case with the U.S. patent office, stripping it of key patent rights to the tool and anywhere from 100 million to 10 billion dollars in potential licensing revenue, according to experts. We’ll talk about what the ruling means for UC Berkeley and the possible ripple effects within the biotech industry. Guests: Megan Molteni , Science writer, STAT News Samantha Zyontz, Research fellow, Intellectual Property and Fellow, Center for Law and Biosciences, Stanford University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.3	When we look back at the early 21st century, there's a pretty good chance that one of the big
1:03.8	tick marks on the timeline of our era will be the invention of the genome editing technology
1:09.0	CRISPR. It fundamentally changed how biotechnologists can alter the genetic code of all kinds
1:15.0	of organisms.
1:16.4	So maybe it's not surprising that UC Berkeley and the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT
1:21.1	have been locked in a years-long tussle over the patent rights.
1:25.1	This week, Berkeley's coalition lost a major battle with an appeals board of the U.S.
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