ST. LOUIS (AP): A legal ruling says contracts give Monsanto the right to stop rival DuPont from selling genetically modified soybeans created with Monsanto's technology, but leaves open DuPont's challenge of the restrictions on antitrust grounds.
The ruling in St. Louis federal court is the latest turn in a lawsuit between the world's two biggest seed companies. At issue is how much freedom Monsanto Co.'s competitors have to develop crops containing their own biotech traits using Monsanto's patented Roundup Ready gene, which is inserted in the vast majority of U.S. corn and soybean crops.
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