To view the PDF you will need Acrobat Reader, which may be downloaded from the Adobe site . For an official signed copy, please contact the Antitrust Documents Group . During the summer months, most of these tomatoes are grown on farms located throughout the United States and then sold locally. During the rest of the year, however, most of those tomatoes are grown in the southern portions of the United States and in Mexico.
Defendants sell the seeds that farmers use to grow fresh-market tomatoes.
They sell more tomato seeds in the United States and in the rest of North America than any other company. But for the non-compete agreement that is the subject of this lawsuit, Hazera would likely be a significant competitor of defendants in North America. Beginning in the early 1980's, Hazera and defendant LSL Biotechnologies, Inc. That ban on competition lasts forever and extends to tomato development efforts beyond those on which LSL and Hazera cooperated. The Restrictive Clause is a non-compete agreement between actual or potential competitors.