Tag: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
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Farmers Appealing “Pre-Emptive” Monsanto Lawsuit to Supreme Court
The Wisconsin Agconnection blog announces that the group of farmers who challenged Monsanto’s patents on genetically-modified seeds is appealing their case to the U.S. Supreme Court after a lower court ruled against them in June. The Maine-based Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association has been joined in their case by a group of 73 organic…
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Trace Contamination by Patented Seeds Insufficient to Establish Standing to Challenge Patents
Flying under the AMP v. Myriad radar was the Federal Circuit’s decision in Organic Seed Growers v. Monsanto. Let’s first recall the story of Bowman v. Monsanto. A small farmer purchased a batch of mixed seeds from an authorized vendor, expecting the batch to contain Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready® seeds. The farmer then planted the seeds, selected for those with the…
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Monsanto Wins Again
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a previous ruling that found organic growers had no reason to try to block Monsanto from suing them as the company had pledged it would not take them to court if biotech crops accidentally mix in with organics. Organic farmers and others have worried for…
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