The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents

[DamianTV]

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/...o-seed-patents

"Can a farmer commit patent infringement just by planting soybeans he bought on the open market? This week, the Supreme Court asked the Obama administration to weigh in on the question. The Court is pondering an appeals court decision saying that such planting can, in fact, infringe patents. Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled, as it had on several previous occasions, that patent exhaustion did not cover second-generation seeds. The Supreme Court has now asked the Solicitor General, the official in charge of representing the Obama administration before the Court, to weigh in on the case."

You cant patent Life or Growth of a Living Thing.

[Krugerrand]

This is where I sure wish Alito and Thomas and Roberts were worth their salt. But, they'll back the corps. mark my words.

[heavenlyboy34]

/in b4 naive IP apologists

[DamianTV]

Arent Wisdom and Knowledge the Property of Mankind and not of a Corporation or an Individual?

[Working Poor]

Arent Wisdom and Knowledge the Property of Mankind and not of a Corporation or an Individual?

this is about seeds monsanto owns them bow down before your back is broken

[Domalais]

/in b4 naive IP apologists

I do think IP should exist, but the present system is outrageous. Software, genetic, and vaporware patents should all be thrown out, and that's just where I'd start.

[fisharmor]

It's a damn shame I only have daughters.
I'd love to have a couple sons. Then I could patent them and around age 14 tell them to go screw everything that moves, and then sue the parents of the girls they impregnate for IP violations.

[heavenlyboy34]

It's a damn shame I only have daughters.
I'd love to have a couple sons. Then I could patent them and around age 14 tell them to go screw everything that moves, and then sue the parents of the girls they impregnate for IP violations.

lolz +rep

[evilfunnystuff]

It's a damn shame I only have daughters.
I'd love to have a couple sons. Then I could patent them and around age 14 tell them to go screw everything that moves, and then sue the parents of the girls they impregnate for IP violations.

[tangent4ronpaul]

It's a damn shame I only have daughters.
I'd love to have a couple sons. Then I could patent them and around age 14 tell them to go screw everything that moves, and then sue the parents of the girls they impregnate for IP violations.

+rep

LOL you nailed it!

-t