It’s rare that patents make the mainstream news, and even more rare that one company’s allegation of patent infringement touches—even remotely—on issues of national security. Yet, that appears to be happening with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s proposed legislation to block Huawei from seeking relief for infringement of its granted U.S. patents. There isn’t really much precedent for legislating that a certain set of patents are unenforceable. Can this really happen?
Read MoreIn the latest episode in the long-running CRISPR-Cas9 patent battle between the University of California and Broad, UC has obtained a new patent related CRISPR-Cas9. UC has touted this patent, as well as another expected to issue shortly, as “useful to locate and edit genes in any setting, including within plant, animal, and human cells.” So, did UC just win patents covering CRISPR-Cas9 in eukaryotes? How does this square with the patent interference that UC recently lost at the Federal Circuit on this very issue?
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