Monsanto Company v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours and Company et al

Filing 1005

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER: Regarding October 28, 2011 Order [ECF No. 937 ]. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Monsanto shall produce to the Defendants the redacted version of the Monsanto-Syngenta license agreements and amendments previously produced to the Court within ten (10) days of this Order. Signed by Honorable E. Richard Webber on January 10, 2012. (BRP)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
EASTERN DIVISION
MONSANTO COMPANY and
MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLC,
Plaintiffs,
vs.
E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND
COMPANY and PIONEER HI-BRED
INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
Defendants.

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Case No. 4:09CV00686 ERW

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

In an October 28, 2011 Order [ECF No. 937], the Court granted in part and denied in part
Defendants E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company and Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.’s
(collectively, “Defendants”) Motion to Compel Testimony and Documents Related to Syngenta’s
Roundup Ready 1 License and Testimony Related to Syngenta’s Roundup Ready 2 License, and
Defendants’ Renewed Motion to Compel Production of Documents Related to Syngenta’s Roundup
Ready 2 License. The Court ordered Monsanto to produce redacted and unredacted versions of “the
executed Syngenta Roundup Ready® and Roundup Ready 2 Yield® license(s) and amendment(s)
thereto in effect between January 1, 2001 and the present” for in camera review.
The Court has conducted its review and finds the redactions reasonable and calculated to
protect sensitive financial information. Moreover, the Court concludes that these redactions are
irrelevant to this case. Therefore, the Court orders Plaintiffs Monsanto Company and Monsanto
Technology LLC (collectively, “Monsanto”) to produce the redacted documents to Defendants.

Accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Monsanto shall produce to the Defendants the redacted
version of the Monsanto-Syngenta license agreements and amendments previously produced to the
Court within ten (10) days of this Order.
Dated this 10th day of January, 2012.

E. RICHARD WEBBER
SENIOR UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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