Monsanto Allowed to Put Genetically Modified Food on Your Plate by Lawyers.com on 5/17/2012 Farmers, seed distributors and food justice organizations filed an appeal after their lawsuit against agricultural giant Monsanto was dismissed. More than 80 plaintiffs, including the Organic Seed Growers and Trade...more
Patents in the Field by Field Law on 2/4/2012 The term “patent exhaustion” does not refer to the feeling you get when an IP lawyer talks for 3 hours about invalidity for lack of obviousness. No, this is the patent law concept that the first authorized, unrestricted sale...more
Preventing hidden commercialisation of GM foods by Virginia Delion on 7/1/2011 A resolution stated that food prepared from transgenic products must contain this information on its label, whether or not there is proof that the products are harmful to health. Discussion on the harm of these foods to...more
Government Targets Agriculture Industry for Increased Antitrust Scrutiny by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/14/2011 During the last of five joint public workshops with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on December 8, 2010 – the first ever to examine competition issues affecting the agriculture industry – the Assistant Attorney...more
Intensive Efforts Underway to Conclude WTO Doha Trade Negotiations by King & Spalding on 2/2/2011 Implications for Companies with International Trade Interests Following calls by world leaders at the G20 and APEC meetings in November to conclude the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations by the end of 2011,...more
Pitfalls in Naming the New by Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. on 8/5/2010 I am currently in my home state of California, a place known to some as “the land of fruits and nuts.” (Although, “the Left Coast” is my favorite of these playfully derisive names for California.) California is indeed the...more
World-wide Certification-Mark Registration A Certifiable Nightmare by Finnegan on 12/14/2009 This article was originally published by Bloomberg Finance L.P. Reprinted by permission. Increasingly, consumers demand proof that the products and services they spend their hard earned money on are safe, healthy,...more
Commenting the Argentinean judicial antitrust ruling related to Monsanto´s European patent litigation published by GCP by mariano municoy on 1/6/2009 This is brief commenting the only Argentine ruling on the very relevant topic of the interplay between enforcing patent rights and antitrust regulations, which was issued in September 2008 and published by the online...more
Protecting Your Intellectual Property With Litigation Insurance by John Kenney and Jeff Todd by McAfee & Taft on 7/10/2008 This Article first appeared in the Agricultural Law Update, July 2008. American agriculture defines progress through invention. In the 1830s, over 250 man hours were required to farm five acres of wheat. Today, through...more