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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 07:20 PM EST |
Umm... WOW! From the article:
Soybean producers are only
supposed to use the Roundup Ready seeds they buy to grow crops in a single
season, and they're forbidden from planting second-generation seeds harvested
from first-generation crops.
Given the effect of nature for blowing
seeds from one crop into another, each of the farmers may well have a better
chance if they simply don't enter into any agreement with Monsanto and just let
Nature take her course!
Otherwise: you sign on with Monsanto, better salt
your crops at the end of the season if you don't plan on buying more Monstanto
seeds. Because if you miss cleaning up just one seed, you could be facing a
billion dollar (value some Jury's place on patents) lawsuit.
Any
other interpretation, the court said, would eviscerate Monsanto's rights as a
patent holder.
I present a different perspective:
No one should
be getting patents on nature to begin with - even if they genetically engineered
the item of nature.
self-replicating
technologies
Perhaps Monsanto would be better suited to genetically
modify the plants to only produce one generation of fertile seed, after that
either no seeds are produced or the seeds are infertile. Like the seedless
grapes that are grown. I certainly wouldn't be concerned my crops would be
infected that way (if I grew crops).
extends to unauthorized copies
of patented products
Oh oh.... are they angling to try to say that
a seed growing a new planet is now protected by Copyright Law?
the
biotech industry will be devastated
A little over-reaching on the
predictions of doom I think. The biotech industry will be devestated? Other
then Monsanto seeds, I don't think there's much industry in "self-replicating
technology" yet.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 07:49 PM EST |
"An effective indefinite monopoly controlling life on planet Earth."
No, the monopoly would still not be indefinite as it would still be subject to
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Friday, January 18 2013 @ 09:04 PM EST |
Well, you mean until the patent expires, right?
But this is the problem the courts face once they allow life to be patented even
against the explicit text embodied in the Constitution stating it's not
patentable.
Should be interesting to see the outcome. Not that I hold out much hope for the
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, January 19 2013 @ 01:54 AM EST |
Gene
therapy
When this succeeds, Monsanto will sue the judges who eat
their beans. They are also self-replicating entities containing the precious
Monsanto genes. The judgement does not say anything about the progeny needing
the protected genes to procreate or survive.
PS: I couldn't possibly
tell you how they will tell which judge ate all the beans. This just
smells.---
Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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