date:Aug 03, 2012
The jury reached the verdict at a St. Louis federal courthouse on the same day that it started deliberations. The trial began July 9.
The jury found DuPont willfully infringed Monsanto's patent for Roundup Ready seeds and awarded $1 billion in damages to Monsanto, according to a statement from Monsanto on Wednesday evening. Roundup Ready seeds grow into plants able to survive exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in the Roundup weedkiller made by Monsanto.
St. Louis-based Monsanto filed