The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents

Fluffeh writes "Can a farmer commit patent infringement just by planting soybeans he bought on the open market? This week, the Supreme Court asked the Obama administration to weigh in on the question. The Court is pondering an appeals court decision saying that such planting can, in fact, infringe patents. Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled, as it had on several previous occasions, that patent exhaustion did not cover second-generation seeds. The Supreme Court has now asked the Solicitor General, the official in charge of representing the Obama administration before the Court, to weigh in on the case."

Re:Culmination of a dream

[TheInternetGuy]

I am not entirely certain if we are arguing against or past each other, but I will respond.

No, I clicked "Reply to this" of your post. But due to my sometimes incredibly short attention span I wrote a post that wasn't really a reply at all.

Is that a bird outside my window?

[Session lost]

Re:Culmination of a dream

[TheInternetGuy]

I predict future generations will think of Monsanto like we thought of Microsoft, and call them Mon$anto on webforums, all while eating a good serving Breakfeast serials developed on M$ Corn Version 11. They will have to be careful, because it is incompatible with M$ Corn v. 10 products, not to mention the "Secured Metabolism" feature that would almost certainly cause the Blue Face of Death if you tried including some Open Genome Food into your diet.

insulting

[harvey the nerd]

....but you Americans really are approaching fascism

That is insulting. Everyone knows that we achieved fascism under Pres. Bush. We're just not sure which one.

Re:Five more years and it's all over

[subreality]

Monsanto just needs to adapt: instead of selling roundup, they can profit by suing farmers for bioengineering Roundup Ready weeds in violation of their patents.

Re:Culmination of a dream

[shentino]

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

In the U.S., there is more corruption every day.

[Anonymous Coward]

Later: If you have eaten food grown with Monsanto seeds, your body is the intellectual property of Monsanto. Monsanto's property must be in there somewhere, right?

At one time, the U.S. was a nation of which citizens could be proud.