STLR Link Roundup – February 20, 2013
Bowman v. Monsanto: A Patent That Just Keeps On Growing On Tuesday February 19, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Bowman v. Monsanto concerning patent rights of self-replicating technology. Monsanto created and patented a genetically altered soybean resistant to the herbicide Roundup, coined Roundup Ready. Vernon Hugh Bowman, an Indiana farmer, obtained second-generation Roundup [...]
Will SCOTUS Finally Address Pay-For-Delay Pharma Settlements?
Pay-for-delay pharmaceutical settlements have been a point of contention for over a decade. Such agreements entail a branded drug manufacturer paying a generic drug manufacturer a large sum of money to withdraw their drug patent challenge and refrain from entering the market of the branded drug for a specified amount of time. In the end, [...]