Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser

with new ideas want to protect their intellectual property. Unfortunately, this system is flawed in many ways. Roundup, a herbicide, is necessary for seeds to fight the intruding weeds. At the same time, Monsanto produces seeds…

was a police court magistrate. “The Chinese, as a rule are friendly people and have a fine sense of humour that puts them on an easy footing with our folk, as compared with the Hindus and others we might mention. Ah, or whatever we choose to call him, is patient, polite and persevering. He also inhales deeply. He also has other peculiarities such as paying his debts and refraining from profanity.… Still, it behooves the people in Canada and the United States, to consider the desirability of…

Such activity was unanimously found by the United States Supreme Court to constitute patent infringement in Bowman v. Monsanto Co. (2013) . The case began in 2007, when Monsanto sued Indiana farmer Vernon Hugh Bowman who in 1999 bought seed for his second planting from a grain elevator – the same elevator that he and others sold their transgenic crops . The elevator sold the soybeans as commodities, not as seeds for planting . Bowman tested the new seeds, and found that as he had expected, some…