Abstract
The US Supreme Court will soon decide whether genetically engineered seeds should be awarded utility patents, which currently cover inventions. Although thousands of utility patents have been issued since the laws included plants created from seeds, a new court case has reached the Supreme Court that now challenges patents on seed. The court battle started when Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the world's largest producer of seed corn, sued J.E.M. AG Supply (IA, USA) for infringing on 17 patents. J.E.M. counter sued, claiming that the patents should not have been awarded at all. The central issue before the court is: can plants created from seeds be patented? Although the Patent and Trademark Office declared in 1985 that patent law covered plants created from seeds, the law is now under question. [Chartrand, S. (2001) New York Times, 12 March, Sect. C p. 6]. TS
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