Nicholas J has ruled that ToolGen’s application for a patent, AU 2013335451, for “what is now a well-known gene editing system known as the CRISPR/Cas9 system” for editing target DNZ sequences in eukaryotic cells. His Honor has allowed ToolGen until 11 August 2023 to bring any application to leave to amend pursuant to s 105(1A).
As the complete specification was filed after 15 April 2013, the Patents Act in the form amended by the Raising the Bars Act applied.
The matter came before his Honor on ToolGen’s “appeal” from an opposition in which the Commissioner’s delegate found that all but