Quote Originally Posted by justpics
you can't patent naturally occurring things, like plants. Monsanto has patents on the genes they themselves created, those genes are in their seeds and that's why their seeds are "patented."


So you can't just breed a plant and say that this cannabinoid profile is now your IP, because its not.


I'm not worried.


This was taken right from their site.







Can You Patent Seed?
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture??s Economic Research Service (USDA ERS), Monsanto and its subsidiaries (including Asgrow® and DeKalb®) currently own more than 400 separate plant technology patents. Agricultural companies such as Monsanto are able to patent seed trait technology because it is considered intellectual property, and intellectual property rights are protected in the U.S.

As the USDA ERS explains, ??Intellectual property rights in agriculture??for example, patents and plant variety protection certificates??are frequently used to protect technological advances. These rights allow their owners to exclude competitors from ??making, using, offering for sale, or selling?? an invention for a limited period of time. As the pace of scientific discovery in agricultural biotechnology has accelerated over the past few decades, the use of patents and other intellectual property rights to protect these discoveries has increased tremendously.?

Monsanto ~ Why Does Monsanto Patent Seeds? Part 1