{"id":136198,"date":"2022-02-28T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/breakthrough-gene-editing-technology-belongs-to-harvard-mit-u-s-tribunal"},"modified":"2022-02-28T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T05:23:09","slug":"breakthrough-gene-editing-technology-belongs-to-harvard-mit-u-s-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/breakthrough-gene-editing-technology-belongs-to-harvard-mit-u-s-tribunal","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough gene-editing technology belongs to Harvard, MIT \u2014U.S. tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-gene-editing-technology-belongs-to-harvard-mit-u-s-tribunal3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Feb 28 (Reuters) \u2014 A U.S. tribunal overseeing patent disputes ruled on Monday that patents on the breakthrough gene-editing technology known as CRISPR belong to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office\u2019s decision is a defeat for the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna and Nobel Prize-winning researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s and MIT\u2019s Broad Institute, which obtained the first CRISPR patent in 2014 and later obtained related patents, said the decision confirmed its patents were properly issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 28 (Reuters) \u2014 A U.S. tribunal overseeing patent disputes ruled on Monday that patents on the breakthrough gene-editing technology known as CRISPR belong to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office\u2019s decision is a defeat for the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna and Nobel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}