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J.E.M. AG SUPPLY, ET AL. v. PIONEER HI-BRED INTL. (15603)

    Order dated: 10/02/00
    Docket number: 99-1996
    Action:
        The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States. Justice O'Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this order.

J.E.M. AG SUPPLY, ET AL. v. PIONEER HI-BRED INTL. (15603)

    Order dated: 02/20/01
    Docket number: 99-1996
    Action:
        The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. Justice O'Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.

J.E.M. AG SUPPLY, ET AL. v. PIONEER HI-BRED INTL. (15603)

    Order dated: 02/20/01
    Docket number: 99-1996
    Action:
        The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. Justice O'Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.

J.E.M. AG SUPPLY, ET AL. v. PIONEER HI-BRED INTL. (15603)

    Order dated: 02/20/01
    Docket number: 99-1996
    Action:
        The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. Justice O'Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.

J.E.M. AG SUPPLY, ET AL. v. PIONEER HI-BRED INTL. (15603)

    Order dated: 02/20/01
    Docket number: 99-1996
    Action:
        The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. Justice O'Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.

J.E.M. AG SUPPLY, ET AL. v. PIONEER HI-BRED INTL. (15603)

    Order dated: 06/29/01
    Docket number: 99-1996
    Action:
        The motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument is granted. Justice O'Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion.

J.E.M. AG SUPPLY, ET AL. v. PIONEER HI-BRED INTL. (15603)

    Order dated: 04/15/02
    Docket number: 99-1996
    Action:
        The petition for rehearing is denied. Justice O'Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.

A description of the questions presented by the case has been prepared:

Are patents issued under 35 U.S.C. 101 Granting the right to exclude others from sexually reproducing plants or plant varieties, or from selling or using plants or plant varieties reproduced by means of sexual reproduction (by seed), invalid because the Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970, 7 U.S.C.2321, et seq., and the Plant Patent Act of 1930, 35 U.S.C. 161-164, are the exclusive means of obtaining a federal statutory right to exclude others from reproducing, selling, or using plants or plant varieties?

An opinion has been handed down: