Legal Opinion
Mycogen Plant Science, Inc., and Agrigenetics, Inc. v. Monsanto Company, Defendant
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 30, 2001No. 00-1127PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYSON, Circuit Judge.
Myeogen Plant Science, Inc., and its licensee, Agrigeneties, Inc., (collectively “Myeogen”) filed suit against the Monsanto Company in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, charging Monsanto with infringing Mycogen’s U.S. Patent No. 5,380,831 (the '831 patent). On Monsanto’s motions for summary judgment, the district court ruled, inter alia, that the process claims of the '831 patent are invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 102(g); that Monsanto could not have infringed Mycogen’s process claims under 35 U.S.C. § 271(g) based on any process…
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