Monsanto Plant Patent Case Winds On

srw writes "A follow-up to a slashdot story from two years ago: The Supreme Court of Canada is willing to hear the case of Percy Schmeiser -- a Saskatchewan farmer accused of violating Monsanto's IP by growing their patented canola. This article contains more background."

Obviously a frame-up

[Caractacus Potts]

Clearly, they planted the evidence...

Re:Obviously a frame-up

[infoape]

perhaps there was a mole

Planting the evidence...

[poor_boi]

I'm going to move my DirecTV dish on to my neighbor's roof so he has to pay the bill. No GMO! No GMO! err... what did I just eat?

I owe my life to Monsanto

[yanestra]

Probably they have patentet me, and I'm their property?

Random mutation could have made my genes change in a way that Monsanto's later efforts are anticipated. So I am possibly Monsanto's property, some time in the future. Or, I would have to prove that my genes are older, so it would be prior art.

Guinea Pig

[MBCook]

Lyrics from a Moxy Fruvous song called "Guinea Pig". I'm not against geneticaly enginered food, but it just seemed apropriate.

dont ya tell me what youre putting in my lunch box dont
tell me what your feeding me today,
dont fill my head with trouble while im scarfin' down a cheese soufle

I wanna be a new, original creation
a cross between a moose a monkey and a fig
I'm ready Monsanto let me be your guina pig

cuz the seed we sew aint good enough
the earth we plow it aint good enough
the food we grow well its never been up to scratch,

the geezer with the beard and all the angels
made a few mistakes I dont know why
we dont need him anymore if geneticly modefy

so dont ya tell me what youre puttin in my lunch box
I got a crazy pioneering additude
dont bother me with labels gotta get a belly full of franken-food

gotta geta belly fulla franken-food

Re:Guinea Pig

[sunaj]

I can see the headlines now:

"Slashdot sued for publishing copyrighted lyrics on its web site"

Re:Obviously a frame-up

[Bold Marauder]

Your post gives me the seeds of an idea; maybe I should squirrel away a little something in case I'm ever visited by the IP police....

The problem with a plant patent

[zakezuke]

You grow a plant in a field... plant grows...

Plants produce seeds, which get carried off by

1. Wind
2. Animals
3. Vehicels

then reproduce into other plants.

The answer is obvious

Sue the
Wind for illegal distrubution of IP
The animals for illegal distrubution of IP
The vehicel manufactor for creating a safe harbor for the distrubution of IP
Sue the plants them selves for reproducing without a license.

Cool, a new business plan unfolds!

[Anonymous Coward]

Slightly OT -

1. write and patent virus
2. secretly unleash it on world
3. sue owners of infected systems
4. Profit!

What I'm Gonna Do...

[MisterMook]

I bet if I patent my unique and viable sperm then I can finally enter into contract agreements for use with my spouse....

A new way to make money...

[Anonymous Coward]

1- Genetically engineer a highly contagious but harmless virus.
2- Let it spread.
3- Sue everyone who is infected because they are illegally copying and distributing your (patented) work. And optionally sell a cure at an extremely high price, since it's not a life-threatening situation.

Canola by any other name

[Anonymous Coward]

Even if they choose to call it canola, the farmer is still getting raped.

Next Up

[kanelephant]

Writer of I love you virus sues for copyright infringement.

"People just kept distributing copies of my IP" the author claimed earlier today.