The CRISPR Patent Landscape: Past, Present, and Future

The development of CRISPR depends, in part, on the patents—past, present, and future—covering it. As for the past, the origins of the CRISPR patent landscape predate its use as a gene editing technology. Fundamental patents covering CRISPR-Cas9 as a genomic editing system did not first arise until 2012; they sparked the now canonical dispute between the University of California and the Broad Institute. The present dispute has not stopped...