Fed. Circuit Provides New Guidance on Invention Conception

In litigation to establish inventorship of the CRISPR gene editing technique, the Fed. Circuit provided additional guidance on how to determine when conception of an invention has occurred. 

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“The appropriate analysis should turn on whether [CVC’s] scientists ‘had formed the idea of their use for that purpose in sufficiently final form that only the exercise of ordinary skill remained to reduce it to practice’ — more than a ‘general hope,’ but less than knowing with certainty that the invention would work.”