主要比對的請求項為,加州大學859號專利第165項請求項,與MIT所申請的359專利請求項第一項,整理如下。前者,請求項之記載,並未限縮使用於原核細胞:「A method of cleaving a nucleic acid comprising contacting a target DNA molecule having a target sequence」,因此產生第165項的技術內容是否可擴及真核細胞之運用之爭議。而後者,則記載在真核細胞使用:「A method of altering expression of at least one gene product comprising introducing into a eukaryotic cell …」。因此,後者該運用特別限縮於真核細胞之運用。
859專利 claim 165
359專利 claim 1
A method of cleaving a nucleic acid comprising
contacting a target DNA molecule having a target sequence with an engineered and/or non-naturally-occurring Type II Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)--CRISPR associated (Cas) (CRISPR-Cas) system comprising
a) a Cas9 protein; and
b) a single molecule DNA-targeting RNA comprising
i) a targeter-RNA that hybridizes with the target sequence, and
ii) an activator-RNA that hybridizes with the targeter-RNA to form a double-stranded RNA duplex of a protein-binding segment,
wherein the activator-RNA and the targeter-RNA are covalently linked to one another with intervening nucleotides,
wherein the single molecule DNA-targeting RNA forms a complex with the Cas9 protein, whereby the single molecule DNA-targeting RNA targets the target sequence, and the Cas9 protein cleaves the target DNA molecule
A method of altering expression of at least one gene product comprising introducing into a eukaryotic cell containing and expressing a DNA molecule having a target sequence and encoding the gene product an engineered, non-naturally occurring Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)--CRISPR associated (Cas) (CRISPR-Cas) system comprising one or more vectors comprising:
a) a first regulatory element operable in a eukaryotic cell operably linked to at least one nucleotide sequence encoding a CRISPR-Cas system guide RNA that hybridizes with the target sequence, and
b) a second regulatory element operable in a eukaryotic cell operably linked to a nucleotide sequence encoding a Type-II Cas9 protein, wherein components (a) and (b) are located on same or different vectors of the system, whereby the guide RNA targets the target sequence and the Cas9 protein cleaves the DNA molecule, whereby expression of the at least one gene product is altered; and, wherein the Cas9 protein and the guide RNA do not naturally occur together.
The Broad Inst., Inc., Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., and Pres. and Fellows of Harvard College, (Patents 8,697,359; 8,771,945; 8,795,965; 8,865,406; 8,871,445; 8,889,356; 8,895,308; 8,906,616; 8,932,814; 8,945,839; 8,993,233; 8,999,641 and Application 14/704,551), Junior Party, v. the Regents of the U. of California, U. of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (Application 13/842,859), Senior Party., PATENT INTERFERENCE, 2017 WL 657415 (Patent Tr. & App. Bd. Feb. 15, 2017)