Editas Medicine Announces U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Remands CRISPR Patent Interference to Patent Trial and Appeal Board

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Editas Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDIT), a pioneering gene editing company, today announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed-in-part and vacated-in-part the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTABs) previous decision and remanded it back to the PTAB for further review in the U.S. patent interference involving specific patents for CRISPR/Cas9 editing in human cells between the University of California, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier and the Broad Institute (Broad). The Company’s in-licensed patents covering CRISPR/Cas12a are not at issue in the interference and are unaffected by this decision.

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