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Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe (technologyreview.com)
6 points by pseudolus 12 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment





What does it mean and what implications are to come, when the patents are cancelled?

Will the technique then be released as open source? Or, now, that a few companies are doing the work (and obviously have the proper knowledge), do they have to stop having this knowledge?




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