There are hundreds if not thousands of cases of farmers being sued by Mon$atan because pollen from their GM crops blew down the road and contaminated another farmer's crops thus illegally contaminating the sued farmer's crops with their frankenfood pollen.
This is
@OldMedUser lying. It's made up B.S. The people sued by Monsanto were deliberately using their patented tech because they wanted to spray their crops with RoundUp. The hapless organic farmer who got sued by Monsanto because their neighbors pollen contaminated their crop is nothing more than a fantasy from self styled "activists" who have turned the Monsanto windmill into some demon they can fight and signal to others their virtue.
This reminds me of the jackasses who go around claiming to be former Navy SEALS. When confronted with the fact that their names don't appear in the records they claim their records are "classified." So it goes with
@OldMedUser. He can't cough up any of these hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits because of nondisclosure agreements. Not a single person has gone to court with Monsanto...except the people deliberately trying to rip them off. Funny that. Every single one of the innocent farmers who got sued had no choice but to settle. It's just nonsense.
For those keeping score at home, the Organic Seed Growers And Trade Association sued Monsanto to get declaratory relief for the very situation that
@OldMedUser is bullshitting us about. They wanted the Court to hand down a judgment preventing a lawsuit against their innocent farmers who didn't want anything to do with RoundUp ready genetics and didn't want to get sued by Monsanto. The suit was tossed out and not just because these claims about Monsanto suing innocent farmers are a bunch of bullshit. The suit was also tossed out because Monsanto has promised not to sue hapless farmers. When you combine the facts that none of the dozens of plaintiffs could point to any farmers who had been sued for inadvertent contamination, the fact that Monsantos lawyers promised the Court that they had never sued a farmer for inadvertent, and a public promise the company has officialy made that others are relying on, you get a tossed out lawsuit.
That's the facts, Monsanto cannot sue hapless farmers as
@OldMedUser tried to bullshit us about. If they do, the lawsuit will get tossed out in a preliminary motion. It's called "judicial estoppel."
While Monsanto’s representations are not a covenant not to sue, they have a similar effect. If we rely on Monsanto’s representations to defeat the appellants’ declaratory judgment claims (as we do), those representations are binding as a matter of judicial estoppel. It is well established that a party who successfully argues one position is estopped from later adopting a contrary postion in a case involving the same patent. See, e.g., U.S. Philips Corp. v. Sears Roebuck & Co., 55 F.3d 592, 596–97 (Fed. Cir. 1995); see also New Hampshire v. Maine, 532 U.S. 742, 750–51 (2001). The main factors warranting judicial estoppel are (1) a party’s later position is “clearly inconsistent” with its prior position, (2) the party success fully persuaded a court to accept its prior position, and (3) the party would derive an unfair advantage or impose an unfair detriment on the opposing party if not stopped.”
New Hampshire v. Maine, 532 U.S. at 750–51.
That's the law found in a 2013 Federal Circuit case called OSGATA v. Monsanto. There isn't a shred of evidence that Monsanto is suing anyone for inadvertent pollenation despite
@OldMedUser claim that "hundreds" of farmers are being sued for this. All he can do is try to blow more smoke up your ass about how bullying all those innocent farmers is a secret that Monsanto pays millions to keep buried. He knows because he read it off a picture in his Facebook feed or something. Also, 9/11 was an inside job and the concept of MSG was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. restaurants non-competitive.