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2007-06-28 | permalink
Ontario grower ordered to pay Monsanto $107,000 for violating patent rights on Roundup Ready® soybeans
The Federal Court of Canada has issued a judgment against Mr. Edward Wouters and Northspruce Farms Ltd. of Forest, Ontario for patent infringement pertaining to the Roundup Ready® gene in soybeans. In a judgment dated June 14, 2007, the Honourable Mr. Justice Barnes determined that Mr. Wouters and Northspruce Farmers Ltd. infringed certain claims of Monsanto’s patent by growing, harvesting and selling 392 acres of soybeans which they ”knew contained genes and cells as claimed in the said claims of the Patent.”
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2007-06-28 | permalink
Ontario grower ordered to pay Monsanto $107,000 for violating patent rights on Roundup Ready® soybeans
The Federal Court of Canada has issued a judgment against Mr. Edward Wouters and Northspruce Farms Ltd. of Forest, Ontario for patent infringement pertaining to the Roundup Ready® gene in soybeans. In a judgment dated June 14, 2007, the Honourable Mr. Justice Barnes determined that Mr. Wouters and Northspruce Farmers Ltd. infringed certain claims of Monsanto’s patent by growing, harvesting and selling 392 acres of soybeans which they ”knew contained genes and cells as claimed in the said claims of the Patent.”
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