The University of California and a private strawberry breeding startup have settled a bitter dispute over UC Davis’ multimillion-dollar strawberry plants, after a jury found that the startup’s founders stole the plants to get an edge in the state’s mammoth strawberry market.
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With billions of dollars at stake on the final day of a bench trial on equitable claims and a possible injunction, two retired UC Davis researchers tried to persuade a federal judge that California’s strawberry industry will benefit if they are allowed to compete with UC Davis by selling strawberry varieties they invented at the school.
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Attorneys for UC Davis tried to persuade a federal judge during a bench trial Wednesday that California’s powerhouse strawberry industry will be imperiled if two of its retired researchers are allowed to sell strawberry strains they created at the school.
Read moreA federal jury unanimously found Thursday that two retired University of California, Davis, researchers willfully infringed the university’s patents on its multimillion-dollar strawberry plants.
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A retired UC Davis researcher may have tipped the advantage to the university Tuesday on the last day of testimony in a federal jury trial over rights to use valuable strawberry cultivars in his private company and compete with the school for a share of California’s $2.5 billion strawberry industry.
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Attorneys for the University of California, Davis, torpedoed its former researchers’ main arguments during day 4 of a contentious trial over who gets the right to breed multimillion-dollar California strawberries, raising questions as to how a federal jury will decide the case.
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Attorneys for two retired professors fighting UC Davis for the right to privately breed multimillion-dollar strains of strawberries tried to persuade a federal jury on Wednesday that the school colluded with “powerful farming conglomerates” to keep the plants away from them.
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Attorneys for two agricultural scientists battling UC Davis for rights to million-dollar strawberry strains told a federal jury Monday that the school colluded with special interests to keep the plants away from California strawberry breeders.
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California-grown strawberries pull in $2.5 billion a year, and attorneys for two former UC Davis scientists sparred with a federal judge Monday over whether the scientists or the nation’s top agricultural research school own the intellectual property rights to some wildly popular cultivars.
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A federal judge delivered a mixed ruling for the University of California and two researchers in their battle over the rights to coveted strawberry plants that hold “considerable commercial potential.”
Read moreA federal judge expressed frustration Thursday when attorneys for UC-Davis and two of its former researchers turned what he called clear-cut” issues over California’s strawberry industry into a three-hour slugfest, though he indicated he would rule for the university.
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