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Having heard oral argument at a hearing held on Monday, November 21st, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on December 14th entered its decision on motions in Interference No 106,132...

The PTAB held an Oral Hearing between Junior Party the University of California, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") and Senior Party ToolGen on...

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board heard oral argument under 37 C.F.R. § 41.124(c) on February 4th in the Priority Phase of Interference No. 106,115 between the Broad Institute, Harvard...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On March 1st, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued its Order on the Preliminary Motions Lists submitted by Junior Party University of California/Berkeley, University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC") and Senior Party ToolGen Inc. in Interference No. 106,127.  (Somewhat curiously, the Board did not issue an Order in Interference No. 106,126 between The Broad Institu...

Three 17-year-old male suspects have been arrested in the shooting of UArizona sophomore Forrest Beckett Keys. By Alexis Blue, University Communications March 1, 2021 University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins thanked police on Monday for their work apprehending three suspects in the on-campus shooting death of UArizona sophomore Forrest Beckett Keys. The University of Arizona Police Department and Tucson Police Department have arrested three 17-year-old male suspects in the sh...

Police are investigating the on-campus shooting death of a UArizona sophomore as a homicide. By Alexis Blue, University Communications Feb. 22, 2021 The University of Arizona is mourning the death of a student killed in an on-campus shooting over the weekend. The University of Arizona Police Department and Tucson Police Department are investigating the death of student Forrest Keys as a homicide. Keys was a sophomore majoring communication and a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. ...

Depending on where they live, Arizonas restaurant workers may have to wait a little longer for their chance to sign up for COVID-19 vaccines, despite the fact that their jobs often require interaction with customers.  The new plan, however, isnt uniform across the state. Individual counties are each developing their own plans, merging aspects of the original and the new, to form hybrid plans.  Additionally, the state has authorized allocation of the new, single-shot Johnson & Johnson vacc...

Chris Richards/University of Arizona In the United States, more people have been at least partially vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – than have contracted it. To date, over 27.4 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported, while 38.3 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Arizona, nearly 800,000 COVID-19 cases have been reported to date, while more than 840...