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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.”
