Monsanto's out of luck, say Argentine lawyers
13 August 2010
Eileen McDermott, New York
Monsanto's push to get protection for its Roundup Ready soybean technology in Argentina is not likely to succeed anytime soon
Monsanto's push to get protection for its Roundup Ready soybean technology in Argentina is not likely to succeed anytime soon, according to lawyers in Argentina
In a statement sent to Managing IP last month, Monsanto disagreed with the Court of Justice of the EU's (CJ) decision that patented DNA sequences can only be protected when they perform the function specified in the patent.
Although the case between Monsanto and importers Cefetra and Alfred C Toepfer International, which resulted in that decision, had been settled in June,...
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