Who Owns the Patent for a Gene-Editing Tool?

NPR's All Things Considered has a piece about «  a fascinating patent drama » that is playing out in a U.S. patent court this week. Who owns CRISPR?  3 min 52 sec, transcript available.

Two videos from the Texas Lawyer site

Valerie Barker and Kevin Douglas talk about their upcoming term as summer associates with Baker Botts a international law firm with 725 lawyers which started out in Dallas. In this short video you can notice the two future lawyers have very different attitudes toward their summer employment - "I'll be working for..." vs "I'll be working at..." You can spot many other differences in their expectations. 2 min 43 sec, no transcript
From the same site, something longer and more technical — Patent Practice: A View From the Bench.
Two patent jurists and two U.S. District judges from the Northern District of Texas discuss the practice of patent law. 65 min, no transcript

The bio-tech industry and the law Australian radio's The Law Report of 10 July 2007 has a very interesting program - "Bio-tech industry and the law" which discusses the question not only from an Australian perspective. An American law professor, Lori Andrews, is interviewed extensively as well. For the next month or so, you can download the 30 min. program (.mp3) or listen with RealPlayer. The transcript of the program stays in the archives, but the recordings will disappear after that.