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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndianapolis-based Dow AgroSciences LLC said Monday that it has been awarded $5.3 million in an unsuccessful patent-infringement case brought by Bayer Bioscience N.V.
Originally filed in 1995 by Plant Genetic Systems—a subsidiary of Belgium-based Bayer Bioscience—the lawsuit claimed that insect-resistant corn products from two affiliates of Dow AgroSciences violated two PGS patents.
The $5.3 million award will reimburse Dow for attorneys’ fees and other costs to defend against the litigation, the company said in a Monday statement.
The case was filed in a federal court in North Carolina.
Bayer Bioscience is an affiliate of South African-based Bayer CropScience SA, which, coincidentally, lost a federal suit against Dow AgroSciences on Thursday.
That suit, filed in December 2010 by Bayer CropScience, charged that Dow AgroSciences’ herbicide-tolerance technology infringed on one of its patents.
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