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PubPat Kills Four Key Monsanto Patents
IP Ergo Sum writes "PubPat's request for reexamination resulted in the rejection of four key Monsanto patents. According to PubPat, those particular patents were being used to 'harass, intimidate, sue — and in many cases bankrupt — American farmers.'"
not only that, but a strong argument can be made that should cross pollination occur monsanto won't have any claim on the derived crop since it's their duty to make sure it doesn't happen in the first place.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Poor bees die by the thousands trying to pollinate species genetically engineered to be insect resistant (in fact insect killers)
I do not understand why there is such opposition to biological patents. Monsanto has spent the time and research to develop seed strains for disease and weather resistant crops. I feel they have a right to protect that investment. I see a lot of people shaking their fists complaining that Monsanto is bulling farmers. I live in a rural area. There are farmers here. I haven't seen that. Indeed, they likely benefit from the seed Monsanto sells. As a stock holder why should I not benefit from the advances they make?
Lots of people own it. It is disheartening to see that while we are willing to put our money where our mouth is, others just want to see Monsanto punished for their inovations.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation
I'm not interested in their investigation. I just want dark dramatic music background and analysis that makes us believe we're on the edge of epic environmental catastrophe.
Also it's ok to fudge some facts if it makes everything looks more scary, I wouldn't mind.
It's more like:
1) Monsanto spends billions developing a pest-resistant crop.
2) Farmer discovers one day that some of his crop is pest-resistant, and concludes it must have been a combination of his extreme ingenuity as a farmer (!) and his faith in God.
3) Farmer saves seed, replants, and leeches off innovative Monsanto research.
4) Monsanto sues farmer, who resists because he refuses to accept that he wasn't really responsible for the better crop.
And it's not like the farmer is somehow innocent in all of this. Farmers in every country lobby for massive subsidies so they don't have to actually do the work in keeping their job skills relevant. He should have been forced to sell due to unprofitability years ago.
Boo, hoo.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Right -- he just *happened* to *only* use the seeds from the *very same* set that was contaminated, for almost his *entire* crop. Just a pure coincidence, that's all.
Seriously, he needs to go get a read job -- one that doesn't require massive subsidies for his very existence, that make him feel "independent" (!).
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
Schmeiser had recognized the cross-contamination the cross-contamination, knowingly collected and replanted the seeds from the cross-contaminated crop.
In other words, he didn't merely do what every farmer for the past 10,000 years has done, liar.
Secondly, he's freaking Canadian, and doesn't receive the kinds of subsidies you think he does.
Canada also has vast agricultural subsidies.
Fourthly, at the time of this battle he was ~70 years old. I guess he'd be better off ditching that farming crap, being a greeter at Wal-Mart is much more profitable and spiritually rewarding, anyway.
No one has the right to have the government ensure they can get their dream job. If you can't survive market competition, don't expect me to pay you so that your work is artificially profitable. That's the standard the IT world lives by. When your knowledge becomes obsolete, you replace it. If he didn't plan for his old age, why should he get massive subsidies so he can feel "independent" (beyond the statutory entitlements)?
If he's holding the land out of the hands of someone who can make better use of it, without suffering the financial loss the market allocates to people who do that, then yes, I hope he throws in the towel to go work at Walmart.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.