GM Watch
  • Main Menu
    • Home
    • News
      • Newsletter subscription
      • Daily Digest
      • News Reviews
      • News Languages
    • Articles
      • GM Myth Makers
      • GM Reports
      • GM Quotes
      • GM Myths
      • Non-GM successes
      • GM Firms
        • Monsanto: a history
        • Monsanto: resources
        • Bayer: a history
        • Bayer: resources
    • Videos
      • Latest Videos
      • Must see videos
      • Cornell videos
      • Agriculture videos
      • Labeling videos
      • Animals videos
      • Corporations videos
      • Corporate takeover videos
      • Contamination videos
      • Latin America videos
      • India videos
      • Asia videos
      • Food safety videos
      • Songs videos
      • Protests videos
      • Biofuel myths videos
      • Index of GM crops and foods
      • Index of speakers
      • Health Effects
    • Contact
    • About
    • Donations
    • How donations will help us
News and comment on genetically modified foods and their associated pesticides    
  • News
    • Latest News
    • Newsletter subscription
    • News Reviews
    • News Languages
      • Notícias em Português
      • Nieuws in het Nederlands
      • Nachrichten in Deutsch
    • Archive
      • 2021 articles
      • 2020 articles
      • 2019 articles
      • 2018 articles
      • 2017 articles
      • 2016 articles
      • 2015 articles
      • 2014 articles
      • 2013 articles
      • 2012 articles
      • 2011 articles
      • 2010 articles
      • 2009 articles
      • 2008 articles
      • 2007 articles
      • 2006 articles
      • 2005 articles
      • 2004 articles
      • 2003 articles
      • 2002 articles
      • 2001 articles
      • 2000 articles
  • Articles
    • GM Myth Makers
    • GM Reports
    • How donations will help us
    • GM Quotes
    • GM Myths
    • Non-GM successes
    • GM Firms
      • Monsanto: a history
      • Monsanto: resources
      • Bayer: a history
      • Bayer: resources
  • Videos
    • Index of speakers
    • Glyphosate Videos
    • Latest Videos
    • Must see videos
    • Health Effects
    • Cornell videos
    • Agriculture videos
    • Labeling videos
    • Animals videos
    • Corporations videos
    • Corporate takeover videos
    • Contamination videos
    • Latin America videos
    • India videos
    • Asia videos
    • Food safety videos
    • Songs videos
    • Protests videos
    • Biofuel myths videos
    • Index of GM crops and foods
  • Contact
  • About
  • Donations
SUBSCRIBE TO REVIEWS

GMWatch Facebook cornfield banner

SCIENCE SUPPORTS REGULATION OF GENE EDITING

Plant tissue cultures

GENE EDITING: UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES AND RISKS

Damaged DNA on fire

GENE-EDITED CROPS & FOODS

Help stop the new threat

GM Fed pig

News Menu

  • Latest News
  • News Reviews
  • Archive
  • Languages

Please support GMWatch

Donations

You can donate via Paypal or credit/debit card.

Some of you have opted to give a regular donation. This is greatly appreciated as it helps place us on a more stable financial basis. Thank you for your support!

2007 articles

Did Monsanto steal low-linoleic soybeans?

  • Print
  • Email
Details
Published: 24 May 2007
Created: 24 May 2007
Last Updated: 22 October 2012
Twitter

NOTE: Monsanto has become infamous for its ruthless pursuit of farmers over supposed infringements of its licencing rights. But Monsanto, according to the article below, stands accused of patent violations over low-linolenic soybeans. These soybeans were conventionally bred and only became GM when Monsanto added a transgene for resistance to its herbicide Roundup.

MORE COMPANY NEWS
Monsanto-Delta deal nears US antitrust OK
http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSN1740313120070517

Monsanto, Chromatin agree to develop gene-stacking technology http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=76767-monsanto-chromatin-gene-stacking

Reorganization plan for Solutia (old Monsanto) may be held up by settlement dispute http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/5E2E772409FFDF50862572E0000A5EB2?OpenDocument

---

Iowa State Professors File Patent Lawsuit Against Monsanto
The Associated Press, May 24 2007
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1179944585486

Two Iowa State University professors have filed a lawsuit claiming Monsanto Co. infringed on their patent on a low-acid soybean.

The lawsuit claims that the St. Louis-based company began their own soybean program based on the low-acid bean invented at Iowa State without "license or authority from" the university and "now licenses Iowa State's technology to others."

The lawsuit said that Iowa State research foundation professors Walter Fehr and Earl Hammond have been awarded several U.S. patents related to soybeans with low linolenic acid. After the patents were issued, Monsanto began marketing the soybeans.

Low linolenic acid is associated with lower trans fat levels in soybean oil, making it healthier.

"Demand for the oil from the food industry has been high because of its excellent frying and flavor stability without the hydrogenation process that creates trans fats," according to the university's Web site.

The lawsuit claims the university challenged Monsanto, which sent a letter to Iowa State saying the company "stands ready to perform under the agreement reached with the university at our meeting of Feb. 28."

Iowa State claims there was no agreement.

A telephone message left Tuesday for a Monsanto spokeswoman was not immediately returned.

  • Prev
  • Next

Menu

Home

News

News Archive

News Reviews

Videos

Articles

GM Myth Makers

GM Reports

GM Myths

GM Quotes

How Donations Will Help Us

Contacts

Contact Us

About

Facebook

Twitter

RSS

Content 1999 - 2021 GMWatch.
Web Development By SCS Web Design