Plant-Based Protein: The Government’s Latest Investment in Clean Technology

Bowman v. Monsanto and Patent Exhaustion: To Be, or Ought to Be?

More of a cautionary winter's tale than a midsummer night's dream, an Indiana farmer facing legal action from a certain biotech and chemical multinational behemoth recently reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The case is called Bowman v. Monsanto, and with all that hangs in the balance, a herbicide-resistant rose by any other name would, in […]

Protecting Regulatory Data in the Agricultural Industry

George Nathanael is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In an article on Intellectual Property Watch, Javier Fernandez, a lawyer for CropLife Latin America, argues that better protection of regulatory data is necessary in order to foster innovation in the agricultural industry. In consideration of projections of an exploding global population, a decreasing […]