Context:
In 2023, Corteva Agriscience sued Inari Agriculture in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware over one patent on seed technology. A year later, it amended its complaint to throw in four more patents as well as hundreds of plant variety protection (PVP) certificates. A trial is scheduled for September 2026, and the current procedural juncture is summary judgment.
What’s new:
On Monday (May 11, 2026), the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ-ATR) filed a Statement of Interest on behalf of the United States (federal government) that formally sides with neither party but supports the defendant with respect to authorized use of a patented invention for the purpose of incremental innovation (
DOJ-ATR press release