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Jun 25, 2013
Soybeans and DNA: Two Important Supreme Court Decisions
The U.S. Supreme Court recently delivered two unanimous decisions, Bowman v. Monsanto (Bowman) and Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (Myriad). One affirmed industry legal analysis, and the other upended it. In Bowman, the Court held that growing a patented plant and harvesting its seed is equivalent to making the patented seed. Read morePosted in: Agriculture & Biosciences, Intellectual Property, News for UNH Researchers, Research Partnerships & Commercialization
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