[dogman144]

“ The usual Monsanto claim involves patent infringement by intentionally replanting patented seed”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases

Edit - Can’t reply again looks like but to the response below, yes many view this approach as effectively leading to enforcing what you state. Which is why it is so horribly underhanded to me, and seeing supporting narratives in hackernews was striking.

[noworriesnate]

Doesn't this mean that farmers will no longer be able to reuse their own seeds then, if a neighbor has GMO seeds?

[throwup238]

No, it doesn't. From their "commitment" [1] which was affirmed by the courts as binding in a 2010s court case (Organic Seed Growers & Trade Ass'n v. Monsanto):

> We do not exercise our patent rights where trace amounts of our patented seeds or traits are present in a farmer’s fields as a result of inadvertent means.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20101023123618/http://www.monsan...