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March 2, 2021
On Monday, Syngenta Crop Protection Ag filed a petition before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board asking it to review a patent granted to Plantlab Groep B.V. The petitioner purported that the system which was patented in U.S. Patent No. 10,667,469 (the â469 patent) should be cancelled because the processes it describes are commonly used in the industry.Â
Syngenta reported that claim one of the patent âmerely recites controlling three parametersâlight, leaf temperature, and root temperatureâin a way that is âdirectly proportionalâ in order to control a plantâs assimilation of carbon dioxide.â The plaintiff explained that claims two through 11 describe common fixtures used in plant cultivation, and the final claim, claim 12, adds that changes to the parameters in claim one should result in a proportional change to the others.Â