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"At FMC Corporation, we make significant investments in research and development to deliver innovative solutions to farmers around the world. Protecting the integrity of our products and ensuring farmers have access to authentic crop protection solutions remains a top priority for us." 

Sara Ponessa, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

As an agricultural sciences company, FMC believes in innovation and in protecting that innovation through intellectual property rights.

We own and license a significant number of U.S. and foreign patents, trademarks, trade secrets and other intellectual property that are cumulatively important to our business. In addition, we seek to license our proprietary technologies through partnering arrangements that effectively allow us to capitalize from our intellectual property. The FMC intellectual property estate provides us with a significant competitive advantage which we seek to expand and renew on a continual basis.

Our patents cover many aspects of our business, including our chemical and biological active ingredients, intermediate chemicals, manufacturing processes to produce such active ingredients or intermediates, formulations, and product uses, as well as many aspects of our research and development activities that support the FMC new product pipeline. 

As of December 31, 2022, the Company owned a total of approximately 200 active granted U.S. patents and 2,600 active granted foreign patents (includes Supplemental Patent Certificates); we also have approximately 2,100 patent applications pending globally.