Federal Circuit Vacates and Remands in Long-Pending Dispute over CRISPR IP

Those hoping the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit would finally resolve priority in the long-pending dispute between the University of California and the Broad Institute will have to wait a little longer. Oral arguments in The Regents of the University of California v. Broad Institute, Inc., No. 22-1653, were more than a year ago, and the decision just came down on Monday, May 12, 2025. But the decision was not the final word. The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded, sending the case back the U.S. Patent Office to try again at resolving which party was the first to invent a single guide CRISPR-Cas system for eukaryotic gene editing. This interference is one of several ongoing disputes related to the technology.

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