Navigation Links
BASF Sues DuPont for Patent Infringement
Date:6/1/2009

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, BASF filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware against DuPont (E. l. du Pont de Nemours and Company) for infringement of BASF's patented technology that confers tolerance to a key class of herbicides. Specifically, DuPont's Optimum GAT corn product incorporates BASF's patented promoter which is an important genetic component that enables successful tolerance toward an herbicide class known as AHAS or ALS inhibitors.

BASF Plant Science GmbH seeks an injunction and damages against DuPont and its subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International for this unlawful use of BASF's patented technology. In the same action, BASF Plant Science seeks to declare invalid and unenforceable DuPont patents for technology relating to herbicide tolerance.

"BASF Plant Science, as a leading provider of advanced traits and technology in the plant biotechnology area, is committed to vigorously protecting its intellectual property and to defending against the assertion of invalid and unenforceable patents. After prolonged discussions with DuPont failed to yield an acceptable commercial solution, BASF decided to enforce its rights by filing this lawsuit," stated Hans Kast, BASF Plant Science President and CEO.

BASF has learned that subsequent to its filing, DuPont filed a separate action concerning the same subject matter.

BASF - The Chemical Company. We don't make a lot of the products you buy. We make a lot of the products you buy better.(R)

BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has more than 15,000 employees in North America, and had sales of approximately $17.5 billion in 2008. For more information about BASF's North American operations, or to sign up to receive news releases by e-mail, visit

SOURCE BASF Corporation
Copyright©2009 PR Newswire.
All rights reserved

0

GOOD

Page: 1 2

Related biology technology :

1. DuPont Named Among Best Places to Work by The Scientist Magazine
2. DuPont Innovation Addressing Major Global Market Trends
3. DuPont Receives Canadian Regulatory Approval for High Oleic Soybean Trait
4. DuPont Statement on Obama Administration Biofuels Interagency Working Group
5. DuPont Leader: Agriculture is Up to Global Productivity Challenge
6. DuPont and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Collaborate to Advance Crop Insect Control, Increase Yield
7. DuPont Partners with Indonesian Center for Rice Research to Advance Hybrid Rice
8. DuPont and International Rice Research Institute Partner to Boost Rice Yields
9. DuPont Biotech Stewardship Program Gains External Certification
10. DuPont Expects Increased Global Seed Corn Share, Continued Agriculture Earnings Growth
11. DuPont and Athenix Collaborate to Advance Insect Control in Corn, Soybeans

Post Your Comments:
*Name:
*Comment:
*Email:
(Date:11/30/2009)...er 30, 2009 An international team of applied scie...Zrich have demonstrated compact, multibeam, and mu...rt of the light spectrum (infrared). By contrast, ...defined wavelength. The innovative multibeam laser...mote chemical sensing pollution monitoring, optica...
(Date:11/30/2009)...F MANOR, N.Y., Nov. 30 Good Public...or the publication of company-sponsored medical re...tish Medical Journal (BMJ). "The publication of GP...of providing support and guidance for industry spo...ts in the peer-reviewed medical literature," said ...
(Date:11/30/2009)...Nov. 30 BioMarin Pharmac... the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has grante...(3,4-DAP), amifampridine phosphate, for the rare a...e (LEMS). 3,4-DAP has previously received orphan ...9, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human ...
(Date:11/30/2009)...NDON, November 30 ApaTech, the rap...ope,s fastest growing,Biotech/Pharmaceutical/Medic...09 Technology Fast 500 for EMEA (Europe, Middle Ea...based on a companies, five-year revenue growth,fo... this period. This,achievement places ApaTech 9th ...
Breaking Biology Technology:Scientists demonstrate multibeam, multi-functional lasers 2ISMPP Announces Publication of Good Publication Practice for Communicating Company-Sponsored Medical Research: GPP2 Guidelines Published in the BMJ 2ISMPP Announces Publication of Good Publication Practice for Communicating Company-Sponsored Medical Research: GPP2 Guidelines Published in the BMJ 3FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation for 3,4-DAP for LEMS 2FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation for 3,4-DAP for LEMS 3FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation for 3,4-DAP for LEMS 4ApaTech is Europe's Fastest Growing Lifescience Company 2ApaTech is Europe's Fastest Growing Lifescience Company 3ApaTech is Europe's Fastest Growing Lifescience Company 4
...7 The market for congestive heart,failure (CHF) d...7, and is,expected to reach $30 billion by 2017, a...Congestive Heart Failure: Major World Markets, Vol...driven by three factors: an,increased incidence of...n,search of targeted therapies which is creating o...
...ril 17 Spherix Incorporated,(Nasdaq: SPEX ) anno...perations. Mr. Brown will be monitoring and overse...rial regarding the use of Naturlose(R) as a,treatm...as allowed Spherix,to terminate its agreement with...r full control of the clinical trial and its pivot...
...7 SPO Medical Inc. (OTC:,SPOM), a leading develop...r,use in portable monitoring devices, today announ...Capital Ventures (ACV), a leading provider of,comp... cap community, as an,investor relations consultan...ve Officer of SPO Medical,commented, "As we contin...
Other Biology Technology:Genomics Likely to Replace Traditional Drug Therapies in Treating CHF 2Spherix Hires Key Employees 2SPO Medical Retains American Capital Ventures for Investor Relations Services 2SPO Medical Retains American Capital Ventures for Investor Relations Services 3
(Date:11/26/2009)...ies has shown that closing schools in the event of...ficant role in reducing illness transmission. Rese...fectious Diseases compared opportunities for infe...g that they were reduced when schools are shut. ,...Belgium, led a team of European researchers in usi...
(Date:11/25/2009)...ay be used to boost resistance to, or slow, the de...edicine researchers report in a study published in..., Parkinson,s disease is caused by a degeneratio...nown as the substantia nigra, which is responsible...opamine in late-stage Parkinson,s causes symptoms ...
(Date:11/25/2009)...s some 250 million liters of blood through the bod...he heart have to be extremely durable. The researc...ir of the Department of Medicine III at Heidelberg...tus), has discovered a protein that is responsible...the sarcomere. In cooperation with other researche...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):School closure could reduce swine flu transmission by 21 percent 2Hormone ghrelin can boost resistance to Parkinson's disease 2New genetic cause of cardiac failure discovered 2Data Show Medication Adherence is an Important Factor in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis 4984 1Data Show Medication Adherence is an Important Factor in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis 4984 2Data Show Medication Adherence is an Important Factor in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis 4984 3Data Show Medication Adherence is an Important Factor in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis 4984 4Data Show Medication Adherence is an Important Factor in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis 4984 5Data Show Medication Adherence is an Important Factor in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis 4984 6Data Show Medication Adherence is an Important Factor in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis 4984 7Data Show Medication Adherence is an Important Factor in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis 4984 8Data Show Medication Adherence is an Important Factor in the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis 4984 9GENova appoints Dr Philip Gould to Scientific Advisory Board 56991 1GENova appoints Dr Philip Gould to Scientific Advisory Board 56991 2GENova appoints Dr Philip Gould to Scientific Advisory Board 56991 3Opto electronic nose sniffs out toxic gases 9902 1Opto electronic nose sniffs out toxic gases 9902 2Opto electronic nose sniffs out toxic gases 9902 3
...ghting like a girl or fighting like a boy is hardw...in the Nov. 19 Nature Neuroscience advance online ...l School and the Institute of Molecular Pathology ...s "fruitless" is a key factor underlying sexual di...ne in an unlikely new animal model for understandi...
...e Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), Thailand, w...28 December entitled "Twenty Years of Malaria Rese...nationally-renowned experts and featuring talks an...a, from epidemiology to therapeutics and from immu...Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, which b...
...searchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medici...n grant from the National Cancer Institute to stud...t with surrounding tissues, cells and chemicals in... invade other areas of the body in the process kno...ohn Condeelis, co-chair of anatomy and structural ...
Other Biology News:Fighting like a girl or boy determined by gene in fruit flies 2Fighting like a girl or boy determined by gene in fruit flies 3Twenty Years of Malaria Research: Outcomes and Perspectives 2World's smallest cancer detection device 2
Iscove's Modified Dulbecco's Medium (IMDM) from Sigma-Aldrich
Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium - high glucose (DME) from Sigma-Aldrich
...r routine procedures. Hollandes contains formaldeh...l decalcify small bone specimens. Tissue that is f...ith most stains, and the cupric acetate in the sol...nophil and endocrine cell granules so that less ly...
...tograph/Mass Spectrometer, utilizing many of the h...igh throughput and excellent productivity, providi...io. Like the GCMS-QP2010 Plus, the GCMS-QP2010s fe...um separation, 20 temperature ramps, and both scan...
Biology Products: