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Source that it is legal to keep the profits and the plants from a patented crop that can’t be prove you have intentionally planted it there? As far as I underst

• HDThoreaun 6mo ago
  There is absolutely no case law suggesting it is illegal to harvest and keep accidentally cross contaminated seed. Seeing as farming seeds is default legal there would need to be precedent otherwise for such an act to be illegal.
  • gzread 6mo ago
    There is patent law. Patent law says you can't do the patented thing without the license. Growing the seeds is patented. So you can't grow them without license. This may be so obvious that it never needed to become a notable precedent-setting case.
    • tptacek 6mo ago
      Nice of you to axiomatically rederive patent law for us, but this is false. You cannot be sued simply for allowing seeds that blew onto your land grow.
      • gzread 6mo ago
        You can for using them commercially.
        • tptacek 6mo ago
          Feel free to cite a case where that happened. I don't think you can.
• tptacek 6mo ago
  Feel free to cite the case they've brought where they claim that! They have sued farmers for innocently acquiring their seeds (through the wind or whatever) and then spraying their crops with Roundup (ie: using the whole system).