Ummm…Napster deals with copyright law, not patent law. Totally different legal animals.
Indeed. A person can control whether or not they illegally download copyrighted products. A farmer has no control over whether or not the wind polinates his crops.
Not really, because they have already switched over to a newer variety under a newer patent according to their website. All they have to do is tweak Roundup so that the old seed variety isn’t resistant and their monopoly continues.
Source of the claim for the “cross pollination” suit? Hint - its already been addressed in this thread.
And the cross pollination claim can be checked two ways, did the farmer buy seed from another seed dealer, the genetics of the corn. The few times the “cross pollination” defense has been used they lose because the genetics don’t lie. Just like DNA.
Nor can a farmer control the genetics of corn cross pollinated from a neighboring field.
How does this happen? I have never seen this claimed before.
I don;t think it is right, but I also don’t think its right that a case that originated in 8th district court was decided by the 9th district court. No one can claim to be “clean” in this situation.
Exactly. Not one of those defenses has been successful because the resulting crop has a DNA that matches Monsanto products - not a hybrid of Monsanto and say Pioneer products. To get a “even” disbursement of a 50% hybrid between those two crops would require mixing seed in the seed tank otherwise you would only get a cross pollination product “from your neighbors” on the outer rows of a field. Certainly nothing you would harvest then plant and later spray with Roundup and unless you wanted to kill off nearly all of your planted crop. Even spraying Roundup on a 50% hybrid is a risk few farmers are willing to take. You could easily kill your entire planted crop.
They were going to lose it anyway. Roundup is nolonger the supreme herbicide that it was when introduced in the 1970s. While good some weeds have developed a resistance to it naturally (just like Monsanto did in the lab) and it’s effectiveness is being lost. Most likely when Monsanto’s patent ages out they will introduce a new herbicide and a line of side that can be used with it.
What urban people probably don’t realize is that they’re likely developing herbicide resistant weeds in their own lawns through “lawn care” companies and products. Virtually all of those products have herbicides in them to kill weeds and make that nice, uniform lawn everybody likes.
Pollution of waterways from fertilizer and chemical runoffs are much worse in suburban areas than anything encountered in farming areas. Suburban and urban green areas have chemicals massively over applied compared to farms.
One reads about the reported upsurge in allergies and asthma in cities; something that does not seem to be happening in rural areas, and one has to wonder about how much of that stuff gets thrown into the air by spraying, mowing, etc. Not to be coarse, but anyone who mows his own lawn and returns from it with a snoot full of particulates knows the inside of his respiratory system is likewise, if less, affected.
Yes, this is new info. I’ll find the source.
