Genome editing tech patent application ‘withdrawn’: IP office
biotech | January 12, 2017
China's intellectual property authority said it considers as withdrawn the genome editing technology patent application of researchers from Hebei University of Science and Technology (HUST) and Zhejiang University since they failed to reply to a notice on time. According to the State Intellectual Property Office, since researchers Han Chunyu and Shen Xiao did not reply, the patent application for the genome editing technology NgAgo is considered to have been withdrawn, thepaper.cn reported Wednesday.