Patent Law Case to come up before US Supreme Court

Bowman v. Monsanto Co.

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
11-796	Fed. Cir.	Feb 19, 2013	TBD	TBD	TBD	OT 2012

Issue: Whether the Federal Circuit erred by (1) refusing to find patent exhaustion – a doctrine which eliminates the right to control or prohibit the use of an invention after an authorized sale – in patented seeds that were sold for planting; and (2) creating an exception to the doctrine of patent exhaustion for self-replicating technologies.