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Zhang's patent US 8,697,359 is limited to techniques in which "the Cas9 protein cleaves the DNA molecule." If this new technique does not use the Cas9 protein
by josaka 11y ago
Zhang's patent US 8,697,359 is limited to techniques in which "the Cas9 protein cleaves the DNA molecule."
If this new technique does not use the Cas9 protein in this fashion, it would potentially provide a design-around, meaning that the benefit of the patented idea can be obtained without infringing the patent.
New patents may have issued that are not so limited.
- benchtobedside 11y agoThanks for clarifying. Further to this comment from [0]: "But with Cfp1, the stakes of that specific patent dispute go down. A lab or company could use Cfp1 without infringing on the CRISPR/Cas9 patent. " [0] http://www.wired.com/2015/09/war-genome-editing-just-got-lot-interesting/?mbid=social_twitter http://www.wired.com/2015/09/war-genome-editing-just-got-lot...