By Kevin E. Noonan —

Two papers were filed with the PTAB in Interference No. 106,155 between Senior Party The Broad Institute, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, "CVC").

On February 13, 2020, the parties filed a Joint Stipulation to Extend Time for time periods 4-6; the deadlines for the responses due during those time periods now are as follows:

TIME PERIOD 1 — October 4, 2019
File motions — October 14, 2019
File priority statements
(but serve one business day later)

TIME PERIOD 2 — October 25, 2019
File responsive motions to motions filed in TIME PERIOD 1 — November 7, 2019

TIME PERIOD 3 — December 6, 2019
File oppositions to all motions — January 9, 2020

TIME PERIOD 4 — January 17, 2020
File all replies — March 5, 2020
                          March 16, 2020

TIME PERIOD 5 — February 28, 2020
File request for oral argument — March 16, 2020
File motions to exclude evidence — March 23, 2020
File observations

TIME PERIOD 6 — March 20, 2020
File oppositions to motions to exclude — March 26, 2020
File response to observations — March 30, 2020

TIME PERIOD 7 — April 3, 2020
File replies to oppositions to motions to exclude

DEFAULT ORAL ARGUMENT DATE — TBD

And on February 25th, CVC provided an updated Notice of Related Proceedings, informing the Board and the Broad of the following newly granted patents (as well as additional pending applications), none of which are involved in this interference:

10,301,651 (USSN 14/685,504); 10,227,611 (USSN 14/042,782); 10,407,697 (USSN 15/435,233); 10,385,360 (USSN 15/925,544); 10,421,980 (USSN 16/033,002); 10,415,061 (USSN 16/033,005); 10,308,961 (USSN 16/033,016); 10,358,658 (USSN 16/201,836); 10,337,029 (USSN 16/201,848); 10,351,878 (USSN 16/201,855); 10,400,253 (USSN 16/276,343); 10,428,352 (USSN 16/276,348); 10,443,076 (USSN 16/276,356); 10,487,341 (USSN 16/277,090); 10,519,467 (USSN 15/803,424); 10,526,619 (USSN 16/380,758); and 10,513,712 (USSN 16/382,093); 10,533,190 (USSN 16/380,781); 10,550,407 (USSN 16/382,096); 10,563,227 (USSN 16/382,097); 10,570,419 (USSN 16/382,100); 10,577,631 (to be granted March 3rd; USSN 16/383,422); allowance of USSN 16/383,412; allowance of USSN 16/383,443.