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They sue people who they think infringed their patents. Farmers who deliberately select out the Roundup resistant crops for replanting and/or buy the seeds ille
by Blahah 14y ago
They sue people who they think infringed their patents. Farmers who deliberately select out the Roundup resistant crops for replanting and/or buy the seeds illegally in contravention of patent law. I've read a lot of Monsanto vs. farmer court summaries, and I've not yet seen one where the farmer was not deliberately infringing. The article you linked to didn't mention any evidence that they have sued farmers who were simply affected by cross-pollination.
- DanBC 14y ago...and Monsanto originally included a "TERMINATOR GENE" which would have solved this problem by making all seed sterile, but this caused a lot of problem among activists.