Re:Why the University of California Is Appealing the CRISPR ...
by CalChris on Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:25PM
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The tennis ball summation is perfect.
However, you can go further with it. UC Berkeley has the right (or they will when their patents issue) to exclude Harvard/MIT (and anyone else) from manufacturing tennis balls. Harvard/MIT also have the right to exclude UC Berkeley (and anyone else) from manufacturing yellow tennis balls.
So UC Berkeley and Harvard/MIT will have to have a sit down and do a deal in order for anyone to get any yellow tennis balls manufactured. It's in their best interests to do this deal but first there will be some legal preliminaries.
However, you can go further with it. UC Berkeley has the right (or they will when their patents issue) to exclude Harvard/MIT (and anyone else) from manufacturing tennis balls. Harvard/MIT also have the right to exclude UC Berkeley (and anyone else) from manufacturing yellow tennis balls.
So UC Berkeley and Harvard/MIT will have to have a sit down and do a deal in order for anyone to get any yellow tennis balls manufactured. It's in their best interests to do this deal but first there will be some legal preliminaries.
(NB: we are ignoring Design Patents here.)