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Monsanto granted patent for chapati-flour grain

Mudpuppie

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It sounds like Greenpeace is way overstating the worries. It's like the claim above that RiceTec had patented basmati rice. As is later noted, no, they've just patented some strains that they've created. No big deal.

That's the way the patent came out after the lawsuit; the original patent claim was much broader.

Some of the claims of the Unilever patent refer to the breeding of plants with specific traits, some are more general. And part of the problem is not whether Monsanto really does anything with the patents, but the general principle of allowing a legal precedent on which potentially even broader claims could be based.

"I think it's a matter of principle that one should always try to avoid eating one's friends."--Doctor Dolittle

blog: The Institute for Impure Science

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