Texas Tech Expert: Monsanto Ruling Won't Have Affect on Consumers

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Supreme Court Decision Closes Loophole in Monsanto’s Business Model

The Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in Bowman v. Monsanto holds that farmers who lawfully obtain Monsanto’s patented, genetically modified soybeans do not have a right to plant those soybeans and grow a new crop of soybeans without Monsanto’s permission. “The Court closed a potential loophole in Monsanto’s long-standing business model, prevents Monsanto’s customers from setting up ‘farm-factories’ for producing soybeans that could be sold in competition with Monsanto’s soybeans, and it enables Monsanto to continue to earn a reasonable profit on its patented technology,” says Kevin Collins, JD, patent law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis

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Supreme Court Gene Patent Case Presents Classic Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma

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Are Human Genes Patentable?

On April 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, a case that could answer the question, “Under what conditions, if any, are isolated human genes patentable?” Kevin Emerson Collins, JD, patent law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, believes that layered uncertainties make this case an unusually difficult case in which to predict the outcome.

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Copyright Expert: Kirtsaeng & ReDigi Cases' Impact on Consumers, Publishers, Artists, Authors, Retailers & Libraries

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SCOTUS Can Strike Down DOMA Without Impacting Right to Marry, Says Constitutional Law Expert

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SU Expert Available on Proposition 8

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Constitutional Law and Gender Issues Expert Available to Comment on Gay Marriage Cases Before the Supreme Court

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Affirmative Action: High Court Review Threatens Generations of Social Progress

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Expert Available to Comment on Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Cases; Key Witness in California’s First Prop 8 Trial

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