Posted on 05/13/2013 11:00:31 AM PDT by blam
Edited on 05/13/2013 11:01:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto Monday over an Indiana farmer accused of having pirated the genetically-modified crops developed by the agribusiness giant.
The high court was unanimous in its decision, ruling that laws limiting patents do "not permit a farmer to reproduce patented seeds through planting and harvesting without the patent holder's permission."
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Yeah , I understand that ... the farmer is OK in my book , the elevator that sold the seeds knowing they were Monsanto should have been the ones sued ... the farmer merely tested the plants for resistance and let the ones that survived go to seed... Allowing living things to be patented leads to this type of lunacy... As others have noted Monsanto didn’t “create” this strain ,, they discovered it by testing thousands of plants and letting the resistant ones go to seed ... exactly what the farmer did.
As I recall from my college days, computer programming involves nothing more than lining up +'s and -'s in the correct order. Microsoft didn't invent +'s and -'s, yet no one seriously argues that +'s and -'s would, somehow have naturally evolved into Windows. The Monsanto patented trait (or the Bayer patented trait) was no more likely to have naturally evolved than Windows.
The Monsanto patent attaches to the product. It does not expire simply because the product was subsequently resold to a third party. Suppose I buy a copy of a movie and resell it to you. Does the copyright expire with the first resale, allowing you to make unlimited copies for commercial resale? Of course not.
What makes you think Monsanto controls the world’s seed supply? You need to get out more. Farmers have many choices, including many non-GM varieties. Like all the other companies in the business, Monsanto produces what it thinks farmers will want to buy.
Does the copyright expire with the first resale, allowing you to make unlimited copies for commercial resale? Of course not.
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Does that DVD self replicate or would I have to do something to make that copy?
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