Comment by noworriesnate
4 hours ago
Doesn't this mean that farmers will no longer be able to reuse their own seeds then, if a neighbor has GMO seeds?
4 hours ago
Doesn't this mean that farmers will no longer be able to reuse their own seeds then, if a neighbor has GMO seeds?
No, it doesn't. From their "commitment" [1] which was affirmed by the courts as binding in a 2010s court case (Organic Seed Growers & Trade Ass'n v. Monsanto):
> We do not exercise our patent rights where trace amounts of our patented seeds or traits are present in a farmer’s fields as a result of inadvertent means.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20101023123618/http://www.monsan...