University of California to be granted pioneering CRISPR patent

Reuters reported the following on February 8, 2019:

“The University of California will soon be granted a potentially valuable patent on the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, according to a document filed by the U.S. patent office on Friday.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision to grant the patent could further fuel a long-running rivalry between the university and the Broad Institute, a biological and genomic research center affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University that also holds patents on CRISPR.”

See the full story on the Reuters website here. A wide variety of media outlets carried the Reuters coverage, including New York Times.