date:May 14, 2013
e Court ruling, Justice Elena Kagan wrote that by planting and harvesting Monsantos patented seeds, Mr. Bowman made additional copies of Monsantos patented invention, and his conduct thus falls outside the protections of patent exhaustion.
Justice Kagan added in the ruling, Were this otherwise, Monsantos patent would provide scant benefit. After Monsanto sold its first seed, other seed companies could produce the patented seed to compete with Monsanto, and farmers would need to buy seed only on