Brussels, 06/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - In its judgement on case C-428/08 delivered on 6 July, the Court of Justice, meeting in grand chamber, ruled that a European patent can only be invoked in relation to an invention which actually performs the function for which it is patented. Thus, the US company Monsanto cannot prohibit the marketing in the EU of Argentinean soy meal containing, as a residue, a DNA sequence for the protection of soybean plants (“RR soybean plant”) which Monsanto...