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Refusal of the United States Supreme Court to take writ of certiorari in Monsanto's case against Mississippi soybean farmer Homan McFarling means Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor Monsanto's damages verdict will stand. St Louis Business Journal. The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday lower court rulings in favor of Monsanto Co. which successfully sued a Mississippi farmer for violating a collection of its patents of Round-up ready soybeans.

Monsanto successful ly sued Homan McFarling, a Mississippi farmer, in 1999 for saving and replanting its patented Roundup Ready soybean seeds, McFarling used the seeds in 1998 and then re-used them in following years prompting the suit. The Federal Circuit heard the case from the United States District Court Eastern District of Missouri three times. Monsanto did not get everything it wanted however, because the Federal Circuit suggested it could grant the defendant a license to reproduce the seed.

Full post as published by Showmeblawgs on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).