TW, I snipped out quite a bit from the Times article, but here is one bit of the argument from Montanto:
Quote:
Monsanto says that a victory for Mr. Bowman would allow farmers
to essentially save seeds from one year’s crop to plant the next year,
eviscerating patent protection.
In Mr. Bowman’s part of Indiana, it says, a single acre of soybeans can
produce enough seeds to plant 26 acres the next year.
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Thus, it appears that "live seeds" are produced in these soybean crops.
And, it appears that in the past, Monsanto did not attempt to exercise control
over what happens to crop seeds, once the farmer sold the 1st generation crop.
Quote:
Monsanto says it must stop infringers to be fair to the large
majority of farmers who do pay to use its technology.
But Monsanto typically exercises no control over soybeans or corn
once farmers sell their harvested crops to grain elevators,
which in turn sell them for animal feed, food processing or industrial use.
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