Agribusiness is currently experiencing both a technological revolution and a corresponding increase in intellectual property uncertainty and disputes. A recent example is the Corteva Agriscience LLC v ...

The last two decades have seen a dramatic shift in the type and scope of intellectual property rights (IPR) available to plant-science inventors. Where plant scientists once relied on plant variety ...

Motif FoodWorks has upped the ante in a high-stakes legal dispute with plant-based meat co Impossible Foods over meaty-tasting ‘heme’ ingredients by filing a petition with the Patent Trial and Appeal ...

You made a discovery and now you’d like to protect it. The U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 1, Clause 8 empowered Congress to pass laws “to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by ...

The uses of genetic sequences to inform, enable or create products or services for human biomedicine are substantially different from their uses in crop-based agriculture. In human medicine, a ...

The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal has held that patents on plants produced by essentially biological process are not excluded from patentability. But Claudia E Unsin and Joseph P Taormino say this is ...