Dive Brief:
- A federal appeals court has reopened the door for Syngenta AG to sue Bunge in a dispute tied to GMO corn.
- The court ordered a lower court to reconsider Syngenta's argument that Bunge engaged in false advertising when it refused to accept the corn from Syngenta's早在2011年就Agrisure Viptera应变。
- The appeals court affirmed the lower court's ruling in favor of Bunge on two other issues.
Dive Insight:
Syngenta's lawsuit against Bunge is not to be confused withCargill's lawsuit against Syngentainvolving that very sameAgrisureViptera strain of GMO corn.Nor should either case be confused with the dozen or so otherlawsuits filed against Syngentarelated toAgrisureViptera.
Nor, of course, should the appeals court's ruling in the Bunge case suggest that anything is settled in the battle over whether or not Syngneta was supposed to sell the corn and whether or not China was going to buy it.
There is one thing that is crystal clear here: The industry will be watching cases related to AgrisureViptera moving through the court system for many years to come.
