Corteva Launches Next Round of Seed Wars Corteva has sued crop technology start-up Inari, accusing Inari of illegally accessing Corteva’s public deposits of protected seed, gene-editing the seed in Belgium, and then seeking to commercialize the newly edited varieties so they can be used and sold to U.S. farmers. Corteva’s complaint, filed in Delaware federal court, asserts claims for Plant Variety Protection infringement, patent infringement, and state law claims for unfair trade practices. The case raises a host of interesting and novel issues in the intellectual property realm for plants and crops, some of which are foundational I.P. principles. The Patent Bargain – in exchange for disclosing a new invention
