Geneva, Switzerland
March 5, 2013

Source: Intellectual Property Watch
By Catherine Saez

The United States Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in the case opposing a US farmer to agro-industry giant Monsanto on the issue of patent exhaustion in patented seeds. Lead lawyers in the case and others offered comments on the heels of the hearing, while the Supreme Court Justices are considering the arguments and are expected to reach a decision sometime this spring.

The case pitting US farmer Vernon Bowman against agro-industry giant Monsanto revolves around patent exhaustion. The question [pdf] that the US Supreme Court has to consider is, “Whether the Federal Circuit erred by (1) refusing to find patent exhaustion in patented seeds even after an authorized sale and by (2) creating an exception to the doctrine of patent exhaustion for self-replicating technologies?”

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Published: March 5, 2013