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To: Kid Rock who wrote (7056)	2/9/2005 11:05:53 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362801

[which farmers exactly are being forced to buy Monsanto seed?] Anyone whose crops get contaminated AND the Monsanto lawyers target... While the court found no evidence that Schmeiser had deliberately contaminated his crops with Monsanto seed, it ruled that the fact that Schmeiser had planted seeds containing patented genes meant Schmeiser had violated Monsanto’s patent, regardless of how the genetic material got into the farmer’s crops. action.web.ca This case sets international precedent for appropriated seed cases and illustrates the primary concerns American courts must face as they consider Monsanto’s prosecution of 22 cases against American farmers. law.duke.edu twnside.org.sg Farmers even have been sued after their fields were contaminated by pollen or seed from someone else's genetically engineered crop; when seed from a previous year's crop has sprouted, or "volunteered," in fields planted with non-genetically engineered varieties the following year; and when they never signed Monsanto's Technology Agreement but still planted the patented crop seed. In all of these cases, because of the way patent law has been applied, farmers are technically liable. It does not appear to matter if the use was unwitting or if a contract was never signed.