Monsanto's Biotech Patents Upheld with Denial of Certiorari

A group of 73 "organic and conventional family farmers, seed companies and public advocacy interests" lost their effort to have the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider lower-court rulings that they could not be sued for violating Monsant's biotech seed patents if their fields became "inadvertently contaminated with its patented genetic traits for corn, soybeans, cotton, canola and other crops," Midwest Producer reports. Monsanto argued that a "'a blanket covenant not to sue any present or future member of petitioners' organizations would enable virtually anyone to commit intentional infringement,'" Midwest Producer further reports.