{"id":34592,"date":"2017-02-15T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T04:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/harvard-and-m-i-t-scientists-win-gene-editing-patent-fight"},"modified":"2017-04-16T18:13:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:13:31","slug":"harvard-and-m-i-t-scientists-win-gene-editing-patent-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/harvard-and-m-i-t-scientists-win-gene-editing-patent-fight","title":{"rendered":"Harvard and M.I.T. Scientists Win Gene-Editing Patent Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., will retain potentially lucrative rights to a powerful gene-editing technique that could lead to major advances in medicine and agriculture, the federal Patent and Trademark Office ruled on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, in a bitterly fought dispute closely watched by scientists and the biotechnology industry, was a blow to the University of California, often said to be the birthplace of the technique, which is known as Crispr-Cas9.<\/p>\n<p>An appeals board of the patent office ruled that the gene-editing inventions claimed by the two institutions were separate and do not overlap.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/15\/science\/broad-institute-harvard-mit-gene-editing-patent.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=2\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/15\/science\/broad-institute-h...p=cur&_r=2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., will retain potentially lucrative rights to a powerful gene-editing technique that could lead to major advances in medicine and agriculture, the federal Patent and Trademark Office ruled on Wednesday. The decision, in a bitterly fought dispute closely watched by scientists and the biotechnology industry, was a blow to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34592","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47975,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34592\/revisions\/47975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}