Intellectual Property and Technology Group

Fifth Circuit Rejects Jury Verdict Of Quarter Horse Conspiracy, Finding Elite Animal Registries To Be A Horse Of A Different Color

By Seth D. Greenstein A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a jury’s verdict that a horse breeding association illegally conspired with some of its members to exclude genetically cloned horses from its elite quarter horse breeding registry, holding the plaintiffs’ circumstantial evidence was insufficient to rebut an inference of independent conduct. The court in Abraham &...