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Comment by throwup238

2 hours ago

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...

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