On Friday Oct. 25, Jake Sherkow presented a talk, "The Complexity of the CRISPR Patent Licensing Landscape for Agriculture" in Keystone, Colorado, for a conference jointly hosted by Colorado State University and OECD. The conference, "Control and Access: Intellectual property and CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing for Innovation in Crop Agriculture" brought together experts from a number of OECD countries to discuss ethical, legal, and social issues of intellectual property licensing for CRISPR modified crops.