Brian D. Keppler
McKee Voorhees & Sease PLC
Articles
Staccato Cherry U.S. Plant Patent Invalidated
USA - January 5 2023 On December 30, 2022, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Washington granted a motion for summary judgment seeking to invalidate U.S. Plant…
Genetically Modified Purple Tomatoes
USA - October 20 2022 Purple tomatoes developed by Norfolk Plant Sciences in the UK may be coming to grocery stores in the not too distant future. Last month, USDA APHIS…
CRISPR-based RNA editing - Cas7-11
USA - June 8 2022 While CRISPR technology is often thought of in terms of editing DNA, there have also been recent exciting advances in RNA editing. Editing RNA offers…
COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program Extended
USA - April 5 2022 The USPTO recently announced on March 25, 2022 that the COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program has been extended for a third time. Requests…
Pluots & Apriums & Plumcots, Oh My!
USA - February 3 2022 All of these terms refer to hybrids within the genus Prunus, specifically a plum (Prunus salicina) and an apricot (Prunus armeniaca). Plumcots (which…
