(January 9, 2018, 4:10 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A final decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that upheld an examiner’s rejection of various claims of a patented process for crossing, or mating, two parent soybean lines was affirmed Jan. 8 by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Monsanto Technology LLC v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., No. 17-1032, Fed. Cir.)....