date:Aug 03, 2012
suit in 2009 over DuPont's Optimum GAT soybean seed, which included a DuPont transgenic trait that enabled the crop to withstand applications of glyphosate.
DuPont and its seed subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred, initially marketed the seed as an alternative to Monsanto's Roundup Ready, but ultimately paired the Monsanto trait with its own trait in the Optimum GAT product.
Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, claimed that by stacking the gene onto its own product, DuPont violated the terms of a