Patent | 婷婷激情五月天 Our Members Bring Choice, Value & Innovation to Agriculture Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:32:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.4 /wp-content/uploads/2023/09/fema-favicon-75x75.png Patent | 婷婷激情五月天 32 32 AGCO Fails in Challenge of Two Patents in Deere Suit /news/agco-fails-in-challenge-of-two-patents-in-deere-suit/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:30:15 +0000 /?p=12443 AGCO has lost challenges it made in court to invalidate two of Deere鈥檚 patents tied to a lawsuit between the manufacturers.

Deere sued AGCO in June 2018 alleging patent infringement. AGCO in turn challenged 10 Deere patents. In this recent development, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled that two of those challenges were invalid.

The patents cover seed metering systems. AGCO argued that 鈥渁spects of earlier planting machines were known techniques that could be combined to come up with the patented seeder.鈥

The board characterized AGCO鈥檚 arguments as 鈥渟implistic and unpersuasive,鈥 and said they failed to account for the differences between machines. The decision also said AGCO did not 鈥渆xplain how inevitable problems in combining the earlier know-how would be handled.鈥

Monsanto and Bayer have backed AGCO鈥檚 challenges and pledged to support the company.

Source: Bloomberg Law

]]> AgJunction Charges Kubota with Patent Infringement /shortliner/agjunction-chagres-kubota-with-patent-infringement/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:28:52 +0000 /?p=8026 AgJunction Inc.. the Autosteering Company鈩 has filed a patent infringement lawsuit through its wholly owned U.S. subsidiaries in the Northern District of Georgia against Kubota Corporation and several of its subsidiaries (鈥淜ubota鈥). The lawsuit alleges that Kubota products violate three AgJunction patents related to automated machine control and implement steering.

鈥淎gJunction has one of the most comprehensive steering and machine control IP portfolios in the industry,鈥 said Bob Barjesteh, vice president of IP and general counsel of AgJunction. 鈥淭hese assets are vital to hands-free steering and machine control functions and are critical components of our corporate strategy. After years of attempting to negotiate a license with Kubota and its suppliers, we are left with no choice but to assert our patents in court.鈥

The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and an injunction to prevent Kubota from selling in the U.S. any products infringing AgJunction鈥檚 patented technology. Specifically named in the lawsuit are Kubota鈥檚 M7 Series tractors and their newer updated models with autosteer components.

Source: AgJunction Release

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