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Kraft sues Kellogg & Keebler alleging packaging patent infringement
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- January 18 2013
Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC has filed a complaint in an Illinois federal court against Kellogg and Keebler, claiming that the companies' cookie
Alleged infringing farmer files Scotus merits brief on patent exhaustion
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- USA
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- December 7 2012
Indiana farmer Vernon Bowman claims in his U.S. Supreme Court merits brief that the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that he infringed patents by planting second-generation genetically modified (GM) seeds, has “significantly curtailed the patent-exhaustion defense” by refusing to “hold Monsanto’s patent rights exhausted with respect to the seeds Bowman purchased from a grain elevator.”
Neither Wrigley nor Cadbury infringed the other’s menthol chewing gum patent
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- USA
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- June 29 2012
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in a divided ruling, has determined that Wrigley’s 2000 patent for menthol chewing gum was invalid because prior patents made Wrigley’s claimed invention obvious; thus, the court determined that Cadbury did not infringe Wrigley’s patent when it reformulated its chewing gum to include the compound claimed in Wrigley’s patent
SCOTUS requests government view in patent dispute over GM soybeans
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- USA
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- April 6 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court has invited the U.S. solicitor general to submit a brief addressing the issues raised in a dispute over patent exhaustion and secondgeneration genetically modified (GM) seeds
Texas federal court refuses to dismiss TOSTITOS SCOOPS! infringement suit
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- USA
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- April 6 2012
A federal court in Texas has determined that a trademark and patent infringement lawsuit involving Frito-Lay North America’s corn chip products can be maintained in the Eastern District of Texas because it has jurisdiction over the defendants and the defendants failed to show that it was “clearly more convenient” to litigate the matter in Arkansas
Organic farmers fail to show controversy, patent invalidation suit against Monsanto dismissed
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- USA
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- March 2 2012
A federal court in New York has dismissed, for lack of jurisdiction, the claims filed by numerous organic farming interests seeking a declaration that they are not infringing Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) seed patents, the patents are invalid and unenforceable and the company would not be entitled to remedies against them
Frito-Lay claims infringement of tortilla chips design and packaging
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- USA
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- February 17 2012
Frito-Lay North America, Inc. has filed a trademark and patent infringement lawsuit in a Texas federal court against a company that purportedly makes a similar tortilla chip product and sells it in similar packaging
Brandeis University sues cookie and biscuit makers for patent infringement
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- USA
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- September 16 2011
Brandeis University has filed suit against a number of cookie and biscuit manufacturers, including Keebler Co., Famous Amos Chocolate Chip and The Pillsbury Co., alleging that they have infringed patents that adjust the LDLHDL ratio in human serum by balancing saturated and polyunsaturated dietary fatty acids
Farmers and seed companies want Monsanto GE seed patents declared invalid
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- USA
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- April 1 2011
A coalition of more than 50 trade organizations, seed businesses, farms, and farmers has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in New York, to stop Monsanto Co. from enforcing its genetically engineered (GE) seed patents against farmers whose fields become contaminated with the GE seeds. Organic Seed Growers & Trade Ass’n v. Monsanto Co., No. 11-2163 (U.S. Dist. Ct., S.D.N.Y., filed March 29, 2011
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