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If you can patent seeds, then why not genes. Monsanto has been notorious for throwing around their weight when it came to protecting their patented seeds, if th
by dkroy 14y ago
If you can patent seeds, then why not genes. Monsanto has been notorious for throwing around their weight when it came to protecting their patented seeds, if this ruling stands I am actually scared to see what comes of it.
- mbreese 14y agoMonsanto actually engineers those seeds. They added some special sauce to come up with those seeds. In this case, the "inventors" discovered a naturally occurring mutation. They didn't have to "do" anything to produce the gene... that is why it is troubling.
- nivla 14y agoFunny how you can never patent/copyright a recipe but you patent the recipe of a seed. BTW din't Monsanto actually come up their secret sauce by stealing indigenous plants from places like India, and then trying to develop genetically modified versions of them?