Monsanto Patents Asserted Against American Farmers Rejected by Patent Office in PUBPAT Initiated Review: PTO Finds All Claims of All Four Patents Invalid
U.S. Newswire, July, 2007
To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS
Contact: Daniel Ravicher, Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation, 1-212-796-0570, info@pubpat.org
NEW YORK, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected four key Monsanto patents related to genetically modified crops that PUBPAT challenged last year because the agricultural giant is using them to harass, intimidate, sue -- and in some cases literally bankrupt -- American farmers. In its Office Actions rejecting each of the patents, the USPTO held that evidence submitted by PUBPAT, in addition to other prior art located by the Patent Office's Examiners, showed that Monsanto was not entitled to any of the patents....
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