Who knew that the business of crops could be so nasty? Last week, the big seed company Monsanto filed a patent infringement suit in St. Louis federal district court against E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. and its subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International over the allegedly unlawful use of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready herbicide-tolerant technologies in a new Pioneer line of genetically modified soybean and corn seeds. Here’s Monsanto’s complaint and here’s a Wall Street Journal article about the suit.
Monsanto followed up with some trash talking in a press release on Tuesday. “As the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant said in the statement. “However, unlawfully taking technology is neither imitation nor flattery; it is unethical and wrong. A true technology company respects patents and its contractual agreements and delivers new products through its own innovation and honest collaboration. DuPont has failed on all counts.”
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