Agriculture
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In a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board opposition on Wednesday, Syngenta Participations Ag claimed that if Meristem Crop Performance Group LLC is granted the trademark for Nutriprime, it will be harmed because of its efforts promoting the Prime + trademark and the similarities between the two marks and their uses.
Syngenta is an agriculture company based in Switzerland. Reportedly, it has used the Prime + trademark since 1982 with goods related to crop protection, healthy soil and vegetable availability. The company noted that it first used the trademark 38 and a half years before the applicant filed the request for its trademark. Syngenta claimed that the trademark is “strong and well-known” and that through its efforts using the trademark it has gained goodwill and recognition.
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February 14, 2021
Some of the largest companies in the agriculture industry produce chemicals and seeds to sell to farms. These companies provide herbicides, pesticides, and seeds that are resilient to both natural and man-made dangers to plants. These companies, including Bayer, BASF, Nutrien, Corteva, and Syngenta, have consistently been involved in various types of litigation. Recently, they were named beside each other as defendants in a series of class-action antitrust lawsuits.
This article will consider analytics of lawsuits involving three separate agrichemical companies, Syngenta, Corteva, and Nutrien Ag Solutions, since the beginning of 2019. Aside from some of the recent antitrust lawsuits, the companies’ legal histories are very unique and the legal statistics vary significantly between them.