Narrow holding in Monsanto leaves open questions

5/24/2013 Articles

The Daily Journal
May 24, 2013
On May 13, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 569 U.S. ___ (2013), which concerned whether and how patent exhaustion applies to self-replicating patented articles. Intellectual Property Litigation attorneys Erik Olson and Stephanie Skaff review the arguments of the case and the factors leading to the Court's decision.