May 22, 2017
Arguing that Dow Chemical Co. had reached the end of its legal rope in a lengthy patent licensing dispute, units of Bayer AG asked a Virginia federal judge on Friday for permission to collect on a more than $455 million arbitration award without waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on Dow's long-shot petition for review.
February 19, 2016
A Dow Chemical unit not only has failed to convince a Virginia federal judge to void a $455 million arbitration award it must pay Bayer for violating patents on genetically modified crops, it will have to grapple with a steep interest rate that could boost the cost of an appeal by millions of dollars.
January 15, 2016
Dow will have to pay a $456 million arbitration award to Bayer in a dispute over four patents for genetically modifying plants, a Virginia federal judge ruled Friday, saying Dow's motion to vacate the award isn't an appropriate way to relitigate the case.
November 30, 2015
Dow can't escape a $456 million arbitration award in a dispute over four patents for genetically modifying plants, Bayer told a Virginia federal court Friday, saying that Dow is trying to re-litigate issues that that have already been decided.
October 29, 2015
Bayer has won a $455.5 million arbitration award against Dow in a patent suit alleging infringement of four patents for genetically modifying plants.
January 26, 2012
Bayer CropScience AG slapped Dow AgroSciences LLC with a lawsuit in Virginia federal court last week, claiming that Dow infringed four patents covering technology for genetically modifying plants to make them herbicide and antibiotic resistant.