23 Feb 2016 Monsanto faces challenge from CICR’s Bt cotton varieties ET
18 Feb 2016 Competition Commission of India (CCI) orders investigation against Monsanto on govt complaint Business Standard Complaint by the agriculture ministry and three Indian companies — Nuziveedu Seeds, Prabhat Agri Biotech and Pravardhan Seeds.
CCI finds Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech practice monopolistic: Orders Investigation ET
Monsanto Biotech to cooperate in CCI probe; denies market abuse charge DNA
3 Feb 2016 Andhra Pradesh to centre: invoke compulsory licence or cancel Bt cotton patent Livemint “AP agriculture minister, in a letter dated 1 February to Nirmala Sitharaman, accused Monsanto of abusing its monopoly position in the genetically modified Bt cotton seed market”
9 Sep 2015 Agriculture ministry seeks legal advice on Monsanto‘s royalties ET
8 Sep 2015 Too little, too late? 3 years afterMonsanto‘s Bt gene went off patent, govt wakes up FirstPost
29 Aug 2015 CICR to produce ‘straight’ varieties of cotton on mass scale FE
26 Aug 2015 Bt cotton: Govt admits Monsanto never had patent in India TOI
8 Jun 2015 Seeds of doubt: Monsanto never had Bt cotton patent TOI
May 2011 Journal of International Commerce & Economics Volume III (1) Innovation in Biotechnology seeds: public and private initiative in India and China Linton & Torsekar…”For instance, it has obtained a patent for ‘Cotton Event Mon 15985’ th genetics underlying the second generation of its biotech cotton seed product, as weak as patents for biotechnology processes used in producing…valuable traits.” www.patestate.com/ http://india.bigpatents.org
1 April 2010 “…Andhra Pradesh which, in 2006, was the first to challenge in the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission the high price that Monsanto was charging for its Bt cotton seeds.”
28 March 2010 Monsanto seeks legal right to claim royalty over Bt cotton seed Blog Devinder Sharma Agracetus patent awarded by Indian Patent Office was a process patent valid from 1999-2019; it was revoked in 1994 after being challenged. Monsanto took over Agracetus in 1996. The legal case is with regard to fixing of price of Bollgard II (patented in 2009? see below).
November 2009 India: Effects of Tariffs and Nontariff Measures on U.S. Agricultural Exports US International Trade Commission. Bollard I not patented; Bollard II patented in 2009.
29 Dec 2005 Andhra Pradesh to file case against Monsanto The Hindu. “M/s Mahyco, Pro-Agro, Raasi and Nuzvid, all seed companies, will be named as respondents in the petition, which will be filed on January 2.”
2004 Farmers are too impatient to wait for government approval Illegal seeds overtake farmers’ fields. Nature Biotechnology K. S. Jayaraman
Seed Act Patent Ordinance
Winter 2003 The Real Reasons for the Second Amendment of the Indian Patent Act The greens Vandana Shiva
March 2002 GEAC approves Bt cotton in India Chronology of Bt cotton in India
1996 Monsanto takes over Agracetus
31 March 1994 Bt cotton patent to Agracetus–revoked
May 1991 “…patent for a method of producing transgenic cotton granted in May 1991 to the US company Agracetus” Downtoearth.org.in