date:May 14, 2013
t is possible to only sell a patented product once and keep the protection. Mr. Bowman replanted generic seeds not the ones from Monsanto that he had signed an agreement about and therefore Mr. Bowman expected the exhaustion doctrine would apply. Monsanto successfully argued in lower courts that seeds with the Roundup Ready gene in them, wherever they were obtained, constituted a patent infringement if they were planted to produce more soybeans without the knowledge of Monsanto.
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