Medicine & TechnologyRecently, strawberry scientists were slapped with legal suits for "taking away" the University of California's intellectual property.
Huawei and Samsung are still in a square off for copyright infringement cases. While Huawei initially won against Samsung, the string of cases span across two countries.
Three major universities are now engaged in a patent lawsuit to protect their rights to use genome editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. The fallout will have far more impact than the simple settling of ownership and intellectual property rights, however; experts believe that CRISPR-Cas9 may be the most efficient route toward a ticking off items on a laundry list of amazing biotechnological discoveries.