Brazilian Court Halts Monsanto Royalties
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A Brazilian court has temporarily halted royalty payments to agriculture biotech giant Monsanto Co. by a farmers' group using its herbicide-resistant soy seed in a country where the company long has struggled to collect the fees.
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Monsanto Co. MON.N on Wednesday said  the U.S. Justice Department has closed an inquiry into  potential antitrust issues regarding a key ingredient used in  its Roundup herbicide.
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A federal appeals court has dismissed Qualcomm's request to stall a ban on its chips over the Broadcom patent dispute.
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Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed an injunction that halted work on a river diversion project that a Roman Catholic bishop has staged a hunger strike to stop.
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A judge has halted legal proceedings in one of Qualcomm Inc.'s complaints that Nokia Corp. violated its wireless-technology patents. The move came as a deadline neared for the two companies to renew a high-stakes licensing agreement.
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Alpharma Inc. said Friday that a federal court dropped an order preventing the generic drug maker from launching its version of Pfizer Inc.
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Google has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop reproducing news articles from papers within the country for Google News. If other courts follow suit, one of the most popular services for the company outside of search could be in jeopardy.
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A batch of contaminated Brazil nuts forces a confectionery firm to close production lines at a plant.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.  - Monsanto Co. MON.N on Monday  said it would set aside $285 million to cover liabilities tied  to its former affiliate Solutia Inc. SOLUQ.OB in an initial  move to define the cost of a tangle of legal problems stemming  from the bankrupt chemical company.
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Merck received yet another blow when a court unexpectedly invalidated a patent on Fosamax, an osteoporosis treatment that is Merck's second-best-selling drug.
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A Belgian court has ordered Google  Inc. to stop reproducing articles from French-speaking  newspapers in the news section of one of its Belgian websites,  a local press organization said.
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Lawsuits halt makers of replacement printer cartridges.
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Brazil's president provokes controversy by approving the temporary planting of genetically modified crops.
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Monsanto Co., Syngenta AG and Bayer AG failed to win wider access to the European Union&#39;s biotechnology market when a demand that five nations lift bans on some gene-modified foods allowed elsewhere in the EU was blocked.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil will break the patents  next year on between three and five foreign drugs used in the  anti-AIDS cocktail central to its innovative program to fight  the illness, the government said on Tuesday.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Monsanto Co. MON.N, a  company that has pioneered the development of bioengineered  crops, is pushing hard to recover millions of dollars in lost  revenue in three South American countries where farmers have  sown its wonder seeds without paying royalties.
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Unions call off a strike at Volkswagen's largest plant in Brazil, after the German firm suspends job cut plans.