Herbicide in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • Wormell v R.HM Agriculture (East) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Mayo 1987
    ... ... oats in wheat and barley", and describes it as a weedkiller; it gives its contents, and says that it is "for use only as an agricultural herbicide". There are instructions on both the sides and on the back of the canister; they go into considerable detail on many points, and I do not need to ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
  • Chapter 4: Competition in the Agricultural Seeds Sector
    • Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms
    • Taylor and Francis
    • 81-102
    ... ... into developing markets involving combinations (‘stack’) of input and output traits that confer multiple and more effective forms of herbicide tolerance or insect resistance or valuable end-use qualities. The chief means by which Monsanto has implemented this strategy has been either to ... ...
  • On robots as genetically modified invasive species
    • No. 12-2, May 2014
    • Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
    • 122-132
    Purpose: – This paper aims to explore similarities and differences between robots, invasive biological species, and genetically modified organisms. These comparisons are designed to better understa...
    ... ... For instance, one of the major motivations of using GMO plants is to simplifyweed control. By using a GMO plant that resists a particular herbicide, farmers hope tokill all plants except the GMO plant with a single dose of the herbicide. However, overtime, weeds that are also resistant to the ... ...
  • For the Want of Certainty: Vnuk, Juliana and Andrade and the Obligation to Insure
    • No. 82-6, November 2019
    • The Modern Law Review
    • 0000
    In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union in Damijan Vnuk v Zavarovalnica Triglav extended the requirement for the owner of a motor vehicle to possess insurance cover where the vehicle is...
    ... ... Andrade involved Mrs Mar ia Alves who died in March 2006 followingan accident at work. A tractor was being used to deliver herbicide at a vineyard.The vehicle was stationary and parked on a sloped terrace. Its weight, thevibration of the tractor’s motor as a pump to administer ... ...
  • Chapter 3: ‘The Story of a Love Spurned'
    • Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms
    • Taylor and Francis
    • 27-80
    ... ... a herbicide] which can cause that material to die’ ... 50 ... The Court found that the patented genetic ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
  • EPA Decision Regarding Glyphosate And Cancer
    • Mondaq UK
    ...On April 30, 2019 the Environmental Protection Agency issued a press release regarding the ability of the herbicide glyphosate to cause cancer in humans. In its release, the EPA stated that glyphosate "does not pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans." Its decision is ... ...
  • Putting ‘Broccoli' Into Practice
    • Mondaq UK
    ...In T 915/10, the Examining Division considered the following claim: ... "A method for producing a soybean plant tolerant to glyphosate herbicide comprising introducing into the genome of said plant event MON89788." ... The Examining Division held that the claim included as an implicit ... ...
  • Biotech patents - Cutting the scope of protection
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... This DNA sequence makes soybean plants resistant to the Roundup Ready herbicide, allowing farmers to use high levels of herbicide to produce greater yields ... The patent covers DNA sequences encoding a class of enzyme ... ...
  • Bayer Pays $10B+ To Settle Roundup Cancer Suits
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... litigation and California state court bellwether cases about the ... glyphosate-based herbicide ... Per Bayer, the settlement includes between $8.8 billion and $9.6 ... billion for resolving current Roundup litigation. This also ... includes ... ...
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