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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 02:04 PM EST |
This is the document purportedly signed by a purchaser as part of
the Bill of Sale for Roundup Ready(TM) seeds permitting the planting,
harvest and sale of the crop, but prohibiting replanting any of the
harvest. It was presumably an exhibit at the district court, and
should be available from Monsanto. Unhappily I am getting 404s
and blank pages from external links to Monsanto, and their site
is a marvel of obfuscation...
Does anyone have the District Court Exhibit please?
Then we'll know what we are talking about.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 04:41 PM EST |
Sotomayer: "It never permits you to make another item from that
item..."
No one is "making" another item from a patented item. They are simply
using it AS INTENDED AND EXPECTED, and "copy" is the result of a
natural process, and the only way to avoid that natural process is to not use
the item at all.
This whole idea of "self replicating invention" is where it went off
the rails. The invention is roundup resistance. That is done by manipulating
the genes of a seed to achieve the result in a plant. However, the seed, with
or without the modification, will replicate. Monsanto did not change anything
at all about the seed that affects replication.
Therefore, self-replication is NOT part of the invention, and is not patentable.
This about using their license agreement to extend a monopoly well past where
patent law would allow.
Its a land grab, with the blessing of the USPTO and the administration. Eminent
Domain, over a product of nature. This is where greed as public policy leads
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