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Anyone have any idea what a ruling like this (if it stands) would do to companies like Monsanto?
by brown9-2 17y ago
Anyone have any idea what a ruling like this (if it stands) would do to companies like Monsanto?
- carbocation 17y agoDisclaimers: Am not in agriculture. Am not a lawyer. Am in human genetics. Monsanto does things like this: (1) Take a plant that has agricultural value. (2) Add a pesticide-resistance gene to that plant. (3) Patent the seeds. (4) Sell at high price. Given my (admittedly superficial) understanding of their practices, I do not think that most of their products would be particularly susceptible to this ruling. It is a bit murky because they may use gene patents to protect their special seeds, in which case one could imagine new 'generic competition' of sorts if they lose their gene patents but not their seed patents.