date:May 15, 2013
t of supporting the world's growing needs.
According to Monsanto, the Supreme Court's decision affirms the basic purpose of the U.S. patent system providing an incentive to innovate by providing inventors a meaningful opportunity to recover costs on their RD investments. The decision also, said Monsanto, reflects the Court's sensitivity to the importance of patent protection not only for agriculture companies such as Monsanto, but for the basic incentive structure the patent system provides f