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Supreme Court To Decide If Monsanto GMO Patents Are Valid

Posted by timothy on from the he-said-kill-it-before-it-grows dept.

tomhath writes with this exerpt from a Reuters story: "The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an Indiana farmer's appeal that challenges the scope of Monsanto Co.'s patent rights on its Roundup Ready seeds. Mr. Bowman bought and planted 'commodity seeds' from a grain elevator. Those soybean seeds were a mix and included some that contained Monsanto's technology. The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case over the objections of the Obama administration, which had urged the justices to leave the lower court rulings in place."

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  1. Re:I still think this guy should countersue . . . by terminal.dk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He can probably not sell his seeds to Europe, we do not like genetically modified foods here. We let the americans be the Guinea Pigs of their own products.
    It seems like the US Government has the same slogan like "The Body Shop" when it comes to food: "Product not tested on animals". There is enough humans to test on.

  2. Why is the Obama administration objecting ? by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case over the objections of the Obama administration ...

    Why is the Obama administration trying so hard to stop the Supreme Court from hearing this case?
     
    Can someone fill me in, please?
     
     
     
     
     
     

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    1. Re:Why is the Obama administration objecting ? by Alarash · · Score: 5, Interesting
      To be precise, the criticism was based on the fact that the authors of the study didn't release all of their findings because they want to point out that the European Union didn't publish all the findings of the studies allowing GMO on the market.

      And the author claims that a lot of the feedback is lobbying from Monsanto and others, but I can't objectively decide if that's true or not.