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20 May 2019AsiaArchana Shanker and Gitika Suri

Agri-patents: The battle of the seeds

Monsanto’s legal battle with Indian seed companies is one of the most closely-monitored patent disputes in India. The issues in this dispute revolve around patenting artificially-created gene sequences for the agri-biotech industry, and its outcome will have ramifications for the entire biotech industry. How India finally fares on patent enforcement will be decided by the courts in this dispute.

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