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In its patent-infringement complaints, filed June 1 in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, Deere said the combination of AGCO unit Precision Planting's vSet seed meters and SpeedTube seed-delivery system infringes 12 patents related to Deere's ExactEmerge, which allows farmers more accurate seed placement and spacing while planting at higher speeds.

Getting flashbacks to Apple's infringement claim based on it's patent for rectangles with rounded corners.



Apple's case was a design patent case, this is a utility patent. The two are quite different.




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