> This is why I hate patents. If CRISPR were put behind a paywall, none of this would have happened. Everything having to be about profit is getting tiring.

CRISPR was the cause of a huge patent case and likely led to a change in US patent law because of the impracticability of deciding who did something first in the laboratory.

It continues to influence research as some nations took a while to decide how they would resolve their own researchers' CRISPR claims with respect to MIT/UC Berkeley.

And yet... all the research has continued apace.

Edit: the CRISPR patent cases are continuing even today

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/12/federal-appeals-court-s...

https://www.broadinstitute.org/crispr/journalists-statement-...