US: Court buries Monsanto soybean patent, handing win to rival DowDuPont

Date:01-08-2018

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a ruling that gutted a Monsanto Co patent relating to genetically modified soybeans at the request of competitor DowDuPont Inc.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that invalidated key claims in a Monsanto patent on a process for producing soybean seeds.

To read the full story, please check in the article "Soybean Patent: Monsanto, Appellant v. DuPont, Appellee"