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Their creations were on display Tuesday night at the sixth annual \u003ca href=\"http://chefsforequality.org/\">Chefs for Equality\u003c/a> in D.C., a fundraiser hosted by the Human Rights Campaign. Some 140 chefs, pastry chefs and mixologists participated in this year's event. The theme: \"Who Can Resist?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George said her cake — three-tiered and adorned with white fondant molding and columns meant to echo the neoclassical architecture of the Supreme Court building — was definitely intended as a political statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine George of Catherine George Cakes crafted this design inspired by neoclassical architecture of the Supreme Court building.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120884\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-160x143.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-800x714.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-768x685.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-1020x910.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-1180x1052.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-960x856.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-240x214.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-375x334.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-520x464.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine George of Catherine George Cakes crafted this design inspired by neoclassical architecture of the Supreme Court building. \u003ccite>(Kelly Jo Smart/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to reference the Supreme Court case that's coming up,\" George says. \"Which is funny, because the idea of cakes as art is part of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds: \"[I] strongly believe that gay people shouldn't be discriminated against when buying their wedding cake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public accommodation laws in Colorado and elsewhere are designed to prevent discrimination by businesses that interact with the public. Five years ago, David Mullins and Charlie Craig asked Colorado baker Jack Phillips to make them a custom wedding cake. Phillips refused, saying he didn't want to be compelled to use his artistic talents — his cake creativity — to celebrate an event that violated his deeply held religious beliefs. So Mullins and Craig filed civil rights charges against the baker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department, under President Trump,\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/09/08/549453484/lgbt-advocates-trump-administration-s-stance-in-cake-case-is-yet-another-letdown\"> is backing the baker\u003c/a>. In a brief filed with the court this month, it argues that the wedding cake case is at heart about the First Amendment and the right to free expression. Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"The government may not enact content-based laws commanding a speaker to engage in protected expression: An artist cannot be forced to paint, a musician cannot be forced to play, and a poet cannot be forced to write.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85.jpg\" alt='Derkje Steenblik from Bourbon Steak says of her cake: \"The hearts ascending symbolize love ascending.\"' width=\"700\" height=\"1051\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85-520x781.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derkje Steenblik from Bourbon Steak says of her cake: \"The hearts ascending symbolize love ascending.\" \u003ccite>(Kelly Jo Smart/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the cakes on display Tuesday were overtly political. Tressa Wiles of Bayou Bakery crafted a blue and yellow cake — the colors of the Human Rights Campaign — with a fist jutting out of the top in defiance. \"If you like cake and dessert and want to get married or celebrate anything, you should be able to get it — as long as you pay for it, right?\" Wiles \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/wedding-cakes-for-all-washington-bakers-support-gay-marriage-as-a-supreme-court-case-looms/2017/09/20/621f5fd6-9e16-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.41ba41bd6fe5\">told\u003c/a> \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>. She told the paper she was 100 percent in support of the Colorado couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others took a more romantic approach. Derkje Steenblik, pastry chef at \u003ca href=\"http://press.fourseasons.com/washington/hotel-news/2017/valentines-day/\">Bourbon Steak\u003c/a>, in D.C.'s Four Seasons hotel, says she spent two days crafting her white-tiered cake festooned with hearts, in the colors of the rainbow. \"The hearts ascending,\" she says, \"symbolize love ascending\" — and presumably, conquering all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wedding cake displays have been a part of Chefs for Equality since the first event was held in 2012, to benefit Maryland's Question 6, the state's same-sex marriage law. The cakes were such a hit that \"we decided to do it every year and theme it,\" says Simone Rathle, who is on the event's host committee. \"And this year, because of what was happening with the Supreme Court hearing, the cakes were much more important than anything.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"You'd think cake would be apolitical, and yet here we are,\" says one of several D.C.-area pastry chefs who wrought their support for gay marriage into elaborate wedding cakes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1506114507,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":697},"headData":{"title":"Is Fondant Free Speech? Chefs Show Support For Gay Marriage As Court Case Looms | KQED","description":""You'd think cake would be apolitical, and yet here we are," says one of several D.C.-area pastry chefs who wrought their support for gay marriage into elaborate wedding cakes.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"120875 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=120875","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/09/22/is-fondant-free-speech-chefs-show-support-for-gay-marriage-as-court-case-looms/","disqusTitle":"Is Fondant Free Speech? Chefs Show Support For Gay Marriage As Court Case Looms","nprByline":"Maria Godoy, NPR Food","nprImageAgency":"Kelly Jo Smart/NPR","nprStoryId":"552450834","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=552450834&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/21/552450834/is-fondant-free-speech-chefs-show-support-for-gay-marriage-as-court-case-looms?ft=nprml&f=552450834","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:33:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:07:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:33:39 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/120875/is-fondant-free-speech-chefs-show-support-for-gay-marriage-as-court-case-looms","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bedecked in fondant and flowers, modern wedding cakes are the centerpiece of the marriage feast — an edible form of art. But are they also an expression of free speech?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9926-6_custom-034334e701bc97e59c34a6bc5ca3c0c0bbedefa2-s700-c85.jpg\" alt=\"This defiant creation, by Tressa Wiles of Bayou Bakery, features a fist gripping one of the Human Rights Campaign's "equality flags."\" width=\"700\" height=\"1039\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120882\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9926-6_custom-034334e701bc97e59c34a6bc5ca3c0c0bbedefa2-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9926-6_custom-034334e701bc97e59c34a6bc5ca3c0c0bbedefa2-s700-c85-160x237.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9926-6_custom-034334e701bc97e59c34a6bc5ca3c0c0bbedefa2-s700-c85-240x356.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9926-6_custom-034334e701bc97e59c34a6bc5ca3c0c0bbedefa2-s700-c85-375x557.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9926-6_custom-034334e701bc97e59c34a6bc5ca3c0c0bbedefa2-s700-c85-520x772.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This defiant creation, by Tressa Wiles of Bayou Bakery, features a fist gripping one of the Human Rights Campaign's \"equality flags.\" \u003ccite>(Kelly Jo Smart/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is the question the Supreme Court will consider this fall when it hears the case of a Colorado baker who refused to make a custom wedding cake for a gay couple because he said it would violate his religious beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'd think cake would be apolitical, and yet here we are,\" muses baker Catherine George of \u003ca href=\"http://www.catherinegeorgecakes.com/\">Catherine George Cakes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was among the Washington, D.C.-area pastry chefs who crafted 18 elaborate tiered wedding cakes to show their support for marriage equality. Their creations were on display Tuesday night at the sixth annual \u003ca href=\"http://chefsforequality.org/\">Chefs for Equality\u003c/a> in D.C., a fundraiser hosted by the Human Rights Campaign. Some 140 chefs, pastry chefs and mixologists participated in this year's event. The theme: \"Who Can Resist?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George said her cake — three-tiered and adorned with white fondant molding and columns meant to echo the neoclassical architecture of the Supreme Court building — was definitely intended as a political statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine George of Catherine George Cakes crafted this design inspired by neoclassical architecture of the Supreme Court building.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120884\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-160x143.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-800x714.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-768x685.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-1020x910.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-1180x1052.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-960x856.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-240x214.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-375x334.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9950-2_custom-02030d2e8e2aa72f756e76c8d53c90d4d0e00bd6-s1600-c85-520x464.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine George of Catherine George Cakes crafted this design inspired by neoclassical architecture of the Supreme Court building. \u003ccite>(Kelly Jo Smart/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to reference the Supreme Court case that's coming up,\" George says. \"Which is funny, because the idea of cakes as art is part of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She adds: \"[I] strongly believe that gay people shouldn't be discriminated against when buying their wedding cake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public accommodation laws in Colorado and elsewhere are designed to prevent discrimination by businesses that interact with the public. Five years ago, David Mullins and Charlie Craig asked Colorado baker Jack Phillips to make them a custom wedding cake. Phillips refused, saying he didn't want to be compelled to use his artistic talents — his cake creativity — to celebrate an event that violated his deeply held religious beliefs. So Mullins and Craig filed civil rights charges against the baker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department, under President Trump,\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/09/08/549453484/lgbt-advocates-trump-administration-s-stance-in-cake-case-is-yet-another-letdown\"> is backing the baker\u003c/a>. In a brief filed with the court this month, it argues that the wedding cake case is at heart about the First Amendment and the right to free expression. Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"The government may not enact content-based laws commanding a speaker to engage in protected expression: An artist cannot be forced to paint, a musician cannot be forced to play, and a poet cannot be forced to write.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85.jpg\" alt='Derkje Steenblik from Bourbon Steak says of her cake: \"The hearts ascending symbolize love ascending.\"' width=\"700\" height=\"1051\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85.jpg 700w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/09/mg_9948-3_custom-be3384d4666d9fa11cbb9069b062631089d9e570-s700-c85-520x781.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derkje Steenblik from Bourbon Steak says of her cake: \"The hearts ascending symbolize love ascending.\" \u003ccite>(Kelly Jo Smart/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the cakes on display Tuesday were overtly political. Tressa Wiles of Bayou Bakery crafted a blue and yellow cake — the colors of the Human Rights Campaign — with a fist jutting out of the top in defiance. \"If you like cake and dessert and want to get married or celebrate anything, you should be able to get it — as long as you pay for it, right?\" Wiles \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/wedding-cakes-for-all-washington-bakers-support-gay-marriage-as-a-supreme-court-case-looms/2017/09/20/621f5fd6-9e16-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.41ba41bd6fe5\">told\u003c/a> \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>. She told the paper she was 100 percent in support of the Colorado couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others took a more romantic approach. Derkje Steenblik, pastry chef at \u003ca href=\"http://press.fourseasons.com/washington/hotel-news/2017/valentines-day/\">Bourbon Steak\u003c/a>, in D.C.'s Four Seasons hotel, says she spent two days crafting her white-tiered cake festooned with hearts, in the colors of the rainbow. \"The hearts ascending,\" she says, \"symbolize love ascending\" — and presumably, conquering all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wedding cake displays have been a part of Chefs for Equality since the first event was held in 2012, to benefit Maryland's Question 6, the state's same-sex marriage law. The cakes were such a hit that \"we decided to do it every year and theme it,\" says Simone Rathle, who is on the event's host committee. \"And this year, because of what was happening with the Supreme Court hearing, the cakes were much more important than anything.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/120875/is-fondant-free-speech-chefs-show-support-for-gay-marriage-as-court-case-looms","authors":["byline_bayareabites_120875"],"categories":["bayareabites_1653","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_10646","bayareabites_1063","bayareabites_15971","bayareabites_912","bayareabites_14600","bayareabites_11046","bayareabites_15970"],"featImg":"bayareabites_120876","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_61949":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_61949","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"61949","score":null,"sort":[1368651471000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-supreme-court-monsantos-win-was-more-about-patents-than-seeds","title":"For Supreme Court, Monsanto's Win Was More About Patents Than Seeds","publishDate":1368651471,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/soybeans.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/soybeans-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Photo: Dan Gill/AP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-61955\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmer holds Monsanto's \"Roundup Ready\" soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Photo: Dan Gill/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/14/183729491/Supreme-Court-Sides-With-Monsanto-In-Seed-Patent-Case\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/05/20130513_atc_10.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2101289/nina-totenberg\">Nina Totenberg\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/14/183729491/Supreme-Court-Sides-With-Monsanto-In-Seed-Patent-Case\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (5/13/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that when farmers use patented seed for more than one planting in violation of their licensing agreements, they are liable for damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billed as David vs. Goliath, the case pitted an Indiana farmer against the agribusiness behemoth Monsanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all the soybean farmers in the U.S. use seed that is genetically altered to be resistant to weed killers like Roundup. That allows farmers to spray for weeds without killing the soybeans. But the seed is three times more expensive than regular unpatented seed, so some farmers have tried to use regenerated seed to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point, 75-year-old farmer Hugh Bowman, who regularly bought Monsanto's Roundup-resistant soybean seed for his first growth and signed a licensing agreement promising to use all the seed and not to use any regenerated seed for future use. But Bowman also had other riskier, lower-yield plantings, and for those, he wanted \"a cheap source of seed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he went to the local grain elevator where farmers drop off their harvested soybeans, and he bought and planted some of those, knowing that those beans would likely also be Roundup-resistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually produced eight separate crop yields using the second and third generations of the grain elevator seed, and he was quite open about what he was doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't imagine that they'd give a rat's behind,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they — namely, Monsanto — did. The company sued Bowman, as it has sued other farmers. Bowman lost in the lower courts and was ordered to pay $84,000 in damages to Monsanto. He appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There the question before the justices pitted two legal doctrines against each other. One doctrine, known technically as patent exhaustion, says that once you buy a product — say, a cellphone — you can do with it whatever you want. You can use it, sell it, give it to your kids, whatever. But a second patent doctrine says you are forbidden to copy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So which rule applied in Bowman's case? The Supreme Court said unanimously that Bowman's actions amounted to illegal copying of a patented product, a sort of farming piracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing for the high court, Justice Elena Kagan said that Bowman is perfectly free to purchase grain elevator beans to eat or feed to livestock, or even to resell, but he could not do what he, in fact, did: plant the beans from the grain elevator in his own fields, test them for weed resistance, and then harvest, re-harvest and re-harvest multiple times, without paying Monsanto for use of its patented product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without this protection for Monsanto, said Kagan, the company would get \"scant benefit\" from its invention, and Bowman and other farmers would reap great rewards from the weed-resistant seed without paying for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kagan also rejected Bowman's argument that since soybeans naturally self-replicate by sprouting, it was the soybean, not Bowman himself, that made replications of the Monsanto's patented invention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think the blame-the-bean defense tough to credit,\" said Kagan. Bowman, she noted, \"was not a passive observer of his soybeans multiplication.\" Instead, Bowman himself produced eight separate crop yields using the grain elevator beans to maximize regeneration of the beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto and other agribusiness enterprises were predictably pleased by the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court's ruling today ensures that long-standing principles of patent law apply to breakthrough 21st century technologies,\" said David Snively, Monsanto's executive vice president and general counsel. \"The ruling also provides assurance to all inventors throughout the public and private sectors that they can and should continue to invest in innovation that feeds people, improves lives, creates jobs and allows America to keep its competitive edge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, critics of the industry were just as predictably disappointed. Andrew Kimbrell, director of the Center for Food Safety, called the decision a \"disaster\" for farmers and consumers, because it ensures that Monsanto's soybean seed patent will dominate the market even more, meaning that prices for both farmers and consumers will soar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's decision, however, was explicitly limited to cases like Bowman's, where an individual takes steps to replicate a patented product. Justice Kagan said the court was not deciding how to handle all self-replicating products — products that range from patented DNA molecules to computer software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as John Whelan, George Washington University associate dean of intellectual property law put it, the court has \"left for another day\" the question of how to treat a product that \"automatically reproduces itself with no intervention.\" In the modern world of complex new inventions, it seems the court is not eager to get ahead of itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The high court ruled unanimously that when farmers use patented seed for more than one planting in violation of their licensing agreements, they are liable for damages.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1368651471,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":860},"headData":{"title":"For Supreme Court, Monsanto's Win Was More About Patents Than Seeds | KQED","description":"The high court ruled unanimously that when farmers use patented seed for more than one planting in violation of their licensing agreements, they are liable for damages.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"61949 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=61949","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/05/15/for-supreme-court-monsantos-win-was-more-about-patents-than-seeds/","disqusTitle":"For Supreme Court, Monsanto's Win Was More About Patents Than Seeds","nprByline":"Nina Totenberg","nprStoryId":"183729491","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=183729491&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/14/183729491/Supreme-Court-Sides-With-Monsanto-In-Seed-Patent-Case?ft=3&f=183729491","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 15 May 2013 11:59:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 13 May 2013 15:00:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 15 May 2013 11:59:24 -0400","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/05/20130513_atc_10.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1070&ft=3&f=183729491","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1183714097-3288f6.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1070&ft=3&f=183729491","path":"/bayareabites/61949/for-supreme-court-monsantos-win-was-more-about-patents-than-seeds","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/05/20130513_atc_10.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1070&ft=3&f=183729491","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/soybeans.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/soybeans-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. 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Photo: Dan Gill/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/14/183729491/Supreme-Court-Sides-With-Monsanto-In-Seed-Patent-Case\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/05/20130513_atc_10.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2101289/nina-totenberg\">Nina Totenberg\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/14/183729491/Supreme-Court-Sides-With-Monsanto-In-Seed-Patent-Case\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (5/13/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that when farmers use patented seed for more than one planting in violation of their licensing agreements, they are liable for damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Billed as David vs. Goliath, the case pitted an Indiana farmer against the agribusiness behemoth Monsanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all the soybean farmers in the U.S. use seed that is genetically altered to be resistant to weed killers like Roundup. That allows farmers to spray for weeds without killing the soybeans. But the seed is three times more expensive than regular unpatented seed, so some farmers have tried to use regenerated seed to save money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Case in point, 75-year-old farmer Hugh Bowman, who regularly bought Monsanto's Roundup-resistant soybean seed for his first growth and signed a licensing agreement promising to use all the seed and not to use any regenerated seed for future use. But Bowman also had other riskier, lower-yield plantings, and for those, he wanted \"a cheap source of seed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he went to the local grain elevator where farmers drop off their harvested soybeans, and he bought and planted some of those, knowing that those beans would likely also be Roundup-resistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually produced eight separate crop yields using the second and third generations of the grain elevator seed, and he was quite open about what he was doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't imagine that they'd give a rat's behind,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they — namely, Monsanto — did. The company sued Bowman, as it has sued other farmers. Bowman lost in the lower courts and was ordered to pay $84,000 in damages to Monsanto. He appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There the question before the justices pitted two legal doctrines against each other. One doctrine, known technically as patent exhaustion, says that once you buy a product — say, a cellphone — you can do with it whatever you want. You can use it, sell it, give it to your kids, whatever. But a second patent doctrine says you are forbidden to copy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So which rule applied in Bowman's case? The Supreme Court said unanimously that Bowman's actions amounted to illegal copying of a patented product, a sort of farming piracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Writing for the high court, Justice Elena Kagan said that Bowman is perfectly free to purchase grain elevator beans to eat or feed to livestock, or even to resell, but he could not do what he, in fact, did: plant the beans from the grain elevator in his own fields, test them for weed resistance, and then harvest, re-harvest and re-harvest multiple times, without paying Monsanto for use of its patented product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without this protection for Monsanto, said Kagan, the company would get \"scant benefit\" from its invention, and Bowman and other farmers would reap great rewards from the weed-resistant seed without paying for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kagan also rejected Bowman's argument that since soybeans naturally self-replicate by sprouting, it was the soybean, not Bowman himself, that made replications of the Monsanto's patented invention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think the blame-the-bean defense tough to credit,\" said Kagan. Bowman, she noted, \"was not a passive observer of his soybeans multiplication.\" Instead, Bowman himself produced eight separate crop yields using the grain elevator beans to maximize regeneration of the beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto and other agribusiness enterprises were predictably pleased by the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court's ruling today ensures that long-standing principles of patent law apply to breakthrough 21st century technologies,\" said David Snively, Monsanto's executive vice president and general counsel. \"The ruling also provides assurance to all inventors throughout the public and private sectors that they can and should continue to invest in innovation that feeds people, improves lives, creates jobs and allows America to keep its competitive edge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, critics of the industry were just as predictably disappointed. Andrew Kimbrell, director of the Center for Food Safety, called the decision a \"disaster\" for farmers and consumers, because it ensures that Monsanto's soybean seed patent will dominate the market even more, meaning that prices for both farmers and consumers will soar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court's decision, however, was explicitly limited to cases like Bowman's, where an individual takes steps to replicate a patented product. Justice Kagan said the court was not deciding how to handle all self-replicating products — products that range from patented DNA molecules to computer software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or as John Whelan, George Washington University associate dean of intellectual property law put it, the court has \"left for another day\" the question of how to treat a product that \"automatically reproduces itself with no intervention.\" In the modern world of complex new inventions, it seems the court is not eager to get ahead of itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/61949/for-supreme-court-monsantos-win-was-more-about-patents-than-seeds","authors":["byline_bayareabites_61949"],"categories":["bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_10771","bayareabites_10787","bayareabites_11714","bayareabites_10773","bayareabites_11715","bayareabites_10776","bayareabites_8523","bayareabites_3582","bayareabites_11046","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_61950","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_56983":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_56983","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"56983","score":null,"sort":[1361220924000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"farmers-fight-with-monsanto-reaches-the-supreme-court","title":"Farmer's Fight With Monsanto Reaches The Supreme Court","publishDate":1361220924,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-bowman.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-bowman.jpg\" alt=\"Vernon Hugh Bowman lives outside the small town of Sandborn, Ind. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"624\" height=\"393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56991\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vernon Hugh Bowman lives outside the small town of Sandborn, Ind. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/18/171896311/farmers-fight-with-monsanto-reaches-the-supreme-court\">Morning Edition:\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/02/20130218_me_10.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, The Salt at NPR Food (2/18/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the Supreme Court will take up a classic David-and-Goliath \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bowman-v-monsanto-co/\">case\u003c/a>. On one side, there's a 75-year-old farmer in Indiana named Vernon Hugh Bowman; on the other, the agribusiness giant Monsanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farmer is fighting the long reach of Monsanto's patents on seeds — but he's up against more than just Monsanto. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs-v2/11-796_resp_amcu_biotech.authcheckdam.pdf\">biotech\u003c/a> and computer \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs-v2/11-796_resp_amcu_bsa.authcheckdam.pdf\">software\u003c/a> industries are taking Monsanto's side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman also is battling a historic shift that's transformed the nation's seed business over the past 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that, Bowman seems remarkably cheerful about his situation. \"Confrontation does not take a toll on me!\" he says. \"You and me can argue about the Bible; we can argue about religion. I'll pound my fist and we can argue all day, and I won't lose a bit of sleep at night!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman is leaning back in an easy chair, where he says he also sleeps at night. He lives alone in a modest white frame house outside the small town of Sandborn, in southwestern Indiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out back, there's an array of old farm equipment collected during decades of growing corn and soybeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman is wearing a Monsanto hat. It's probably an ironic gesture, but in fact, he's been a pleased and loyal customer of the company's seeds. He thinks the genes that Monsanto inserted into soybeans are just great. They let soybeans survive the country's most popular weedkiller: \u003ca href=\"http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/dienochlor-glyphosate/glyphosate-ext.html\">glyphosate\u003c/a>, also known as Roundup. He can spray that one chemical to get rid of the weeds without harming his crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It made things so much simpler and better. No question about that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman uses these \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.monsanto.com/weedmanagement/Pages/roundup-ready-system.aspx\">Roundup Ready\u003c/a>\" soybeans for his main crop, which he plants in the spring, and he signs a standard agreement not to save any of his harvest and replant it the next year. Monsanto demands exclusive rights to supply that seed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56992\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-bowman-grainelevator.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-bowman-grainelevator-290x216.jpg\" alt=\"Bowman bought ordinary soybeans from this small grain elevator and used them for seed. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"290\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56992\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bowman bought ordinary soybeans from this small grain elevator and used them for seed. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But here's where Bowman got into trouble: He also likes to plant a second crop of soybeans, later in the year, in fields where he just harvested wheat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those late-season soybeans are risky. The yield is smaller. Bowman decided that for this crop, he didn't want to pay top dollar for Monsanto's seed. \"What I wanted was a cheap source of seed,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 1999, he bought some ordinary soybeans from a small grain elevator where local farmers drop off their harvest. \"They made sure they didn't sell it as seed. Their ticket said, 'Outbound grain,\" says Bowman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knew that these beans probably had Monsanto's Roundup Ready gene in them, because that's mainly what farmers plant these days. But Bowman didn't think Monsanto controlled these soybeans anymore, and in any case, he was getting a motley collection of different varieties, hardly a threat to Monsanto's seed business. \"I couldn't imagine that they'd give a rat's behind,\" he snorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman told his neighbors what he was doing. It turned out that Monsanto did, in fact, care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He wanted to use our technology without paying for it,\" says David Snively, Monsanto's general counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto took Bowman to court, and Bowman was ordered to pay Monsanto $84,000 for infringing the company's patent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman appealed. To the surprise of many, the highest court in the land agreed to hear his case. \"I'm not a-gonna give in! Because I think I've done nothing wrong!\" says Bowman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His lawyers, who are representing him for free, have come up with a legal argument for why he did nothing wrong. If they succeed in persuading the court, it could pull the rug out from under Monsanto, and some other industries, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman's lawyer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.flhlaw.com/professionals/xprAttorneyDetails2.aspx?xpST=AttorneyDetail&attorney=227\">Mark Walters\u003c/a> from the firm of Frommer Lawrence and Haug, says there's a very old principle in patent law: If you buy something that's covered by a patent — let's say it's a cell phone — you own it, outright. \"You're allowed to put it on Craigslist and sell it, you're allowed to use it for your 'ordinary pursuits of life' is the quote from some of the old cases that we're relying on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a valuable principle, Walters says. \"Imagine how commerce would work if patents owners could come out of nowhere and surprise purchasers and tell them, 'Oh, you need to pay me a royalty, because I own a patent on this thing that you just bought.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So according to this principle of \"patent exhaustion,\" Bowman bought that seed and can do with it what he wants. Patent holders have no right to stop him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto's \u003ca href=\"http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/Pages/david-snively-bio.aspx\">David Snively\u003c/a>, for his part, says this argument completely misses the point. Yes, we can buy an iPhone and do whatever we want with it, \"but we're not going to go out and make copies of the iPhone and put Apple out of business,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what Bowman did, says Snively. When he planted this patented seed, he made copies of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, he says, if farmers were allowed to do this with patented seeds, the patents would be worthless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of industry organizations have come to Monsanto's defense, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bio.org/\">Biotechnology Industry Organization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hans Sauer, deputy general counsel at BIO, says many biotech products are a lot like seeds. \"They are easily replicated. They are difficult to make, but once created they are relatively easy to reproduce.\" The same is true of computer software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56990\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-nels-kasey.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-nels-kasey-290x216.jpg\" alt=\"Bowman bought ordinary soybeans from this small grain elevator and used them for seed. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR \" width=\"290\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56990\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bowman bought ordinary soybeans from this small grain elevator and used them for seed. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these are new technologies. Farmers' seeds are old; they're the original self-replicating technology, and for centuries, nobody tried to claim them as intellectual property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one reason why Monsanto's patents and lawsuits against farmers have stirred up so much \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/pubs/CFSMOnsantovsFarmerReport1.13.05.pdf\">anger\u003c/a> and received so much attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's less well known, however, is that the practice of patenting seeds has moved far beyond Monsanto and other biotech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's standard practice now even among small companies like \u003ca href=\"http://www.greatheartseed.com/\">Great Heart Seed\u003c/a>, in Paris, Ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Great Heart Seed's warehouse is filled to the rafters with white bags of soybean seed. The company sells 45 different varieties in all. Some grow better in the south, others in the north. Most have Monsanto's Roundup resistance genes, while others do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet all of these varieties are patented. \"Nearly everything out there has a patent on it now,\" says Nels Kasey, one of the Great Heart's owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years ago, that wasn't the case. Many seed dealers sold \"public\" varieties that came from breeders at universities like Iowa State or Purdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, most new varieties come from private companies, and even universities acquire patents on most of the varieties that they do release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers aren't supposed to save and replant those seeds, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasey says, the new system gives soybean breeders and seed companies more profits, and a stronger incentive to create and sell even better plant varieties. \"I'm really proud of the varieties that we have today. When I started in this company, you had a handful of varieties. Today, there's more money in it, more profit in it, so I can support 45 lines,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those seeds, though, are also more expensive. Soybean seeds have tripled in price over the past 20 years. And a farmer like Bowman who just wants some cheap, generic seeds can't easily find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman can see towering bins filled with soybeans all around southwestern Indiana, but according to the seed companies, he can't plant any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, after Monsanto took Bowman to court, his search for unrestricted seeds took him all the way to Ohio, one of the very few places in the country where the state still \u003ca href=\"http://www.ohseed.org/downloads/NonGmoSoybeans2.pdf\">distributes\u003c/a> non-patented soybean varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman acquired some of that seed — a variety called Dennison — and grew it last year. He saved part of his harvest. Those soybeans are now sitting in an old combine in a shed behind his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Supreme Court rules against him, Bowman can still use those beans for seed this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On its surface, the case is about whether farmers can use seeds derived from patented crops. But the bigger question is, how much control does a company have over its patented products once they're in the hands of consumers?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1361220924,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1461},"headData":{"title":"Farmer's Fight With Monsanto Reaches The Supreme Court | KQED","description":"On its surface, the case is about whether farmers can use seeds derived from patented crops. But the bigger question is, how much control does a company have over its patented products once they're in the hands of consumers?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"56983 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=56983","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/02/18/farmers-fight-with-monsanto-reaches-the-supreme-court/","disqusTitle":"Farmer's Fight With Monsanto Reaches The Supreme Court","nprByline":"Dan Charles","nprStoryId":"171896311","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=171896311&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/18/171896311/farmers-fight-with-monsanto-reaches-the-supreme-court?ft=3&f=171896311","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:42:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:00:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:14:54 -0500","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/02/20130218_me_10.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1053&ft=3&f=171896311","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1172298281-ccb9d3.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1053&ft=3&f=171896311","path":"/bayareabites/56983/farmers-fight-with-monsanto-reaches-the-supreme-court","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/02/20130218_me_10.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1053&ft=3&f=171896311","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-bowman.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-bowman.jpg\" alt=\"Vernon Hugh Bowman lives outside the small town of Sandborn, Ind. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"624\" height=\"393\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56991\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vernon Hugh Bowman lives outside the small town of Sandborn, Ind. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/18/171896311/farmers-fight-with-monsanto-reaches-the-supreme-court\">Morning Edition:\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/02/20130218_me_10.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, The Salt at NPR Food (2/18/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the Supreme Court will take up a classic David-and-Goliath \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bowman-v-monsanto-co/\">case\u003c/a>. On one side, there's a 75-year-old farmer in Indiana named Vernon Hugh Bowman; on the other, the agribusiness giant Monsanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farmer is fighting the long reach of Monsanto's patents on seeds — but he's up against more than just Monsanto. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs-v2/11-796_resp_amcu_biotech.authcheckdam.pdf\">biotech\u003c/a> and computer \u003ca href=\"http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs-v2/11-796_resp_amcu_bsa.authcheckdam.pdf\">software\u003c/a> industries are taking Monsanto's side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman also is battling a historic shift that's transformed the nation's seed business over the past 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite all that, Bowman seems remarkably cheerful about his situation. \"Confrontation does not take a toll on me!\" he says. \"You and me can argue about the Bible; we can argue about religion. I'll pound my fist and we can argue all day, and I won't lose a bit of sleep at night!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman is leaning back in an easy chair, where he says he also sleeps at night. He lives alone in a modest white frame house outside the small town of Sandborn, in southwestern Indiana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out back, there's an array of old farm equipment collected during decades of growing corn and soybeans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman is wearing a Monsanto hat. It's probably an ironic gesture, but in fact, he's been a pleased and loyal customer of the company's seeds. He thinks the genes that Monsanto inserted into soybeans are just great. They let soybeans survive the country's most popular weedkiller: \u003ca href=\"http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/dienochlor-glyphosate/glyphosate-ext.html\">glyphosate\u003c/a>, also known as Roundup. He can spray that one chemical to get rid of the weeds without harming his crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It made things so much simpler and better. No question about that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman uses these \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.monsanto.com/weedmanagement/Pages/roundup-ready-system.aspx\">Roundup Ready\u003c/a>\" soybeans for his main crop, which he plants in the spring, and he signs a standard agreement not to save any of his harvest and replant it the next year. Monsanto demands exclusive rights to supply that seed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56992\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-bowman-grainelevator.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-bowman-grainelevator-290x216.jpg\" alt=\"Bowman bought ordinary soybeans from this small grain elevator and used them for seed. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"290\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56992\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bowman bought ordinary soybeans from this small grain elevator and used them for seed. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But here's where Bowman got into trouble: He also likes to plant a second crop of soybeans, later in the year, in fields where he just harvested wheat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those late-season soybeans are risky. The yield is smaller. Bowman decided that for this crop, he didn't want to pay top dollar for Monsanto's seed. \"What I wanted was a cheap source of seed,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in 1999, he bought some ordinary soybeans from a small grain elevator where local farmers drop off their harvest. \"They made sure they didn't sell it as seed. Their ticket said, 'Outbound grain,\" says Bowman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He knew that these beans probably had Monsanto's Roundup Ready gene in them, because that's mainly what farmers plant these days. But Bowman didn't think Monsanto controlled these soybeans anymore, and in any case, he was getting a motley collection of different varieties, hardly a threat to Monsanto's seed business. \"I couldn't imagine that they'd give a rat's behind,\" he snorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman told his neighbors what he was doing. It turned out that Monsanto did, in fact, care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He wanted to use our technology without paying for it,\" says David Snively, Monsanto's general counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto took Bowman to court, and Bowman was ordered to pay Monsanto $84,000 for infringing the company's patent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman appealed. To the surprise of many, the highest court in the land agreed to hear his case. \"I'm not a-gonna give in! Because I think I've done nothing wrong!\" says Bowman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His lawyers, who are representing him for free, have come up with a legal argument for why he did nothing wrong. If they succeed in persuading the court, it could pull the rug out from under Monsanto, and some other industries, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman's lawyer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.flhlaw.com/professionals/xprAttorneyDetails2.aspx?xpST=AttorneyDetail&attorney=227\">Mark Walters\u003c/a> from the firm of Frommer Lawrence and Haug, says there's a very old principle in patent law: If you buy something that's covered by a patent — let's say it's a cell phone — you own it, outright. \"You're allowed to put it on Craigslist and sell it, you're allowed to use it for your 'ordinary pursuits of life' is the quote from some of the old cases that we're relying on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a valuable principle, Walters says. \"Imagine how commerce would work if patents owners could come out of nowhere and surprise purchasers and tell them, 'Oh, you need to pay me a royalty, because I own a patent on this thing that you just bought.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So according to this principle of \"patent exhaustion,\" Bowman bought that seed and can do with it what he wants. Patent holders have no right to stop him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto's \u003ca href=\"http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/Pages/david-snively-bio.aspx\">David Snively\u003c/a>, for his part, says this argument completely misses the point. Yes, we can buy an iPhone and do whatever we want with it, \"but we're not going to go out and make copies of the iPhone and put Apple out of business,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what Bowman did, says Snively. When he planted this patented seed, he made copies of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, he says, if farmers were allowed to do this with patented seeds, the patents would be worthless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of industry organizations have come to Monsanto's defense, including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bio.org/\">Biotechnology Industry Organization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hans Sauer, deputy general counsel at BIO, says many biotech products are a lot like seeds. \"They are easily replicated. They are difficult to make, but once created they are relatively easy to reproduce.\" The same is true of computer software.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_56990\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-nels-kasey.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/02/monsanto-nels-kasey-290x216.jpg\" alt=\"Bowman bought ordinary soybeans from this small grain elevator and used them for seed. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR \" width=\"290\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56990\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bowman bought ordinary soybeans from this small grain elevator and used them for seed. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But these are new technologies. Farmers' seeds are old; they're the original self-replicating technology, and for centuries, nobody tried to claim them as intellectual property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's one reason why Monsanto's patents and lawsuits against farmers have stirred up so much \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/pubs/CFSMOnsantovsFarmerReport1.13.05.pdf\">anger\u003c/a> and received so much attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's less well known, however, is that the practice of patenting seeds has moved far beyond Monsanto and other biotech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's standard practice now even among small companies like \u003ca href=\"http://www.greatheartseed.com/\">Great Heart Seed\u003c/a>, in Paris, Ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Great Heart Seed's warehouse is filled to the rafters with white bags of soybean seed. The company sells 45 different varieties in all. Some grow better in the south, others in the north. Most have Monsanto's Roundup resistance genes, while others do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet all of these varieties are patented. \"Nearly everything out there has a patent on it now,\" says Nels Kasey, one of the Great Heart's owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years ago, that wasn't the case. Many seed dealers sold \"public\" varieties that came from breeders at universities like Iowa State or Purdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, most new varieties come from private companies, and even universities acquire patents on most of the varieties that they do release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers aren't supposed to save and replant those seeds, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasey says, the new system gives soybean breeders and seed companies more profits, and a stronger incentive to create and sell even better plant varieties. \"I'm really proud of the varieties that we have today. When I started in this company, you had a handful of varieties. Today, there's more money in it, more profit in it, so I can support 45 lines,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those seeds, though, are also more expensive. Soybean seeds have tripled in price over the past 20 years. And a farmer like Bowman who just wants some cheap, generic seeds can't easily find them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman can see towering bins filled with soybeans all around southwestern Indiana, but according to the seed companies, he can't plant any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, after Monsanto took Bowman to court, his search for unrestricted seeds took him all the way to Ohio, one of the very few places in the country where the state still \u003ca href=\"http://www.ohseed.org/downloads/NonGmoSoybeans2.pdf\">distributes\u003c/a> non-patented soybean varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowman acquired some of that seed — a variety called Dennison — and grew it last year. He saved part of his harvest. Those soybeans are now sitting in an old combine in a shed behind his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Supreme Court rules against him, Bowman can still use those beans for seed this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/56983/farmers-fight-with-monsanto-reaches-the-supreme-court","authors":["byline_bayareabites_56983"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_10773","bayareabites_10776","bayareabites_11046","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_11210"],"featImg":"bayareabites_56984","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_54592":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_54592","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"54592","score":null,"sort":[1358310683000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"monsanto-lawyer-suggests-new-standard-for-suing-farmers","title":"Monsanto Lawyer Suggests New Standard For Suing Farmers","publishDate":1358310683,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-roundup_wide.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-roundup_wide.jpg\" alt=\"To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\" title=\"To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54599\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/14/169318303/monsanto-lawyer-suggests-new-standard-for-suing-farmers\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the biotech giant Monsanto has provoked outrage among its critics for \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Monsanto-v-US-Farmer-2010-Update-v.-2.pdf\">suing\u003c/a> farmers who save and replant seeds, such as soybeans and canola, from the company's patented Roundup Ready crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that outrage is based on a decade-old case in Canada, in which a court \u003ca href=\"http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/en/2001/2001fct256/2001fct256.html\">ruled\u003c/a> that a farmer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.percyschmeiser.com/\">Percy Schmeiser\u003c/a>, violated Monsanto's patents by planting canola that he \"knew or ought to have known\" contained Monsanto's Roundup Ready gene. Schmeiser argued that he didn't want the gene in his fields, and that it had become incorporated into his canola via wind-blown pollen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto won that case, but the company might have been better off losing because the victory has been a public relations disaster. Around the world, many people now believe, mistakenly, that Monsanto is suing farmers for growing patented seeds that wandered into their fields without the farmers' knowledge and against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it caught our attention last week when a lawyer representing Monsanto in federal court seemed to admit that suing Schmeiser had been a mistake that the company would not repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer for Monsanto, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wilmerhale.com/seth_waxman/\">Seth Waxman\u003c/a>, was being questioned by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/judges/william-c-bryson-circuit-judge.html\">Judge William Bryson\u003c/a>, from the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit. In the case, a group of mostly organic farmers had hauled Monsanto into court, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pubpat.org/monsanto-seed-patents.htm\">claiming\u003c/a> that they are being damaged by the possibility that Monsanto might sue them. Bryson wanted to know what actions would convince Monsanto to sue a farmer, and Waxman came up with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"In the real world, Judge Bryson, the cases Monsanto brings are cases in which it has come to learn that the farmer is not purchasing any Roundup Ready seed, but is spraying his fields with Roundup, and the plants are surviving. If the farmer were not spraying, by definition he wouldn't be taking advantage of Monsanto's technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54598\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-gmosoybeans.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-gmosoybeans-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\" title=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54598\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under Waxman's common-sense standard, Monsanto wouldn't have brought its case against Schmeiser. That's because in that case, the company did not produce any evidence that Schmeiser was taking advantage of Monsanto's technology by spraying his crop with Roundup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We called several lawyers to see whether Waxman's statement in court had any legal standing and would prevent any Schmeiser-style lawsuits in the future. They tell us that Monsanto isn't bound by Waxman's words because he's just a hired lawyer thinking on his feet in a courtroom, not a company executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judges in this case, however, might conceivably take up this point in their eventual decision. If they follow Waxman's lead and write, for instance, that farmers don't infringe Monsanto's patents unless they are \"taking advantage\" of those genes and getting some benefit from them, it would be more significant. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/MemberContentDisplay.aspx?ccmd=ContentDisplay&ucmd=UserDisplay&userid=80\">Daniel Ravicher\u003c/a>, who argued the case against Monsanto for the group of organic farmers, says even such an opinion wouldn't completely change the legal landscape because other judges, in other courts, still could disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the battle continues. The U.S. Supreme Court is about to take up another high-profile Monsanto seed \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bowman-v-monsanto-co/\">case\u003c/a> involving patent infringement. Oral arguments are scheduled for Feb. 19. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\">National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many farmers are worried that the biotech giant will sue them if a patented gene gets accidentally incorporated into their crops. But in a departure, one Monsanto lawyer says that only farmers that specifically take advantage of the company's technology would face a lawsuit.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1358467196,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":589},"headData":{"title":"Monsanto Lawyer Suggests New Standard For Suing Farmers | KQED","description":"Many farmers are worried that the biotech giant will sue them if a patented gene gets accidentally incorporated into their crops. 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That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\" title=\"To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54599\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To spray or not to spray? That may be the question on which Monsanto's arguments against farmers hangs. Seth Perlman/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/14/169318303/monsanto-lawyer-suggests-new-standard-for-suing-farmers\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the biotech giant Monsanto has provoked outrage among its critics for \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Monsanto-v-US-Farmer-2010-Update-v.-2.pdf\">suing\u003c/a> farmers who save and replant seeds, such as soybeans and canola, from the company's patented Roundup Ready crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that outrage is based on a decade-old case in Canada, in which a court \u003ca href=\"http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/en/2001/2001fct256/2001fct256.html\">ruled\u003c/a> that a farmer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.percyschmeiser.com/\">Percy Schmeiser\u003c/a>, violated Monsanto's patents by planting canola that he \"knew or ought to have known\" contained Monsanto's Roundup Ready gene. Schmeiser argued that he didn't want the gene in his fields, and that it had become incorporated into his canola via wind-blown pollen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto won that case, but the company might have been better off losing because the victory has been a public relations disaster. Around the world, many people now believe, mistakenly, that Monsanto is suing farmers for growing patented seeds that wandered into their fields without the farmers' knowledge and against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it caught our attention last week when a lawyer representing Monsanto in federal court seemed to admit that suing Schmeiser had been a mistake that the company would not repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer for Monsanto, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wilmerhale.com/seth_waxman/\">Seth Waxman\u003c/a>, was being questioned by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/judges/william-c-bryson-circuit-judge.html\">Judge William Bryson\u003c/a>, from the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit. In the case, a group of mostly organic farmers had hauled Monsanto into court, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pubpat.org/monsanto-seed-patents.htm\">claiming\u003c/a> that they are being damaged by the possibility that Monsanto might sue them. Bryson wanted to know what actions would convince Monsanto to sue a farmer, and Waxman came up with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"In the real world, Judge Bryson, the cases Monsanto brings are cases in which it has come to learn that the farmer is not purchasing any Roundup Ready seed, but is spraying his fields with Roundup, and the plants are surviving. If the farmer were not spraying, by definition he wouldn't be taking advantage of Monsanto's technology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54598\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-gmosoybeans.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/npr-gmosoybeans-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\" title=\"A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54598\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmer holds Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seeds at his family farm in Bunceton, Mo. Dan Gill/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under Waxman's common-sense standard, Monsanto wouldn't have brought its case against Schmeiser. That's because in that case, the company did not produce any evidence that Schmeiser was taking advantage of Monsanto's technology by spraying his crop with Roundup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We called several lawyers to see whether Waxman's statement in court had any legal standing and would prevent any Schmeiser-style lawsuits in the future. They tell us that Monsanto isn't bound by Waxman's words because he's just a hired lawyer thinking on his feet in a courtroom, not a company executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judges in this case, however, might conceivably take up this point in their eventual decision. If they follow Waxman's lead and write, for instance, that farmers don't infringe Monsanto's patents unless they are \"taking advantage\" of those genes and getting some benefit from them, it would be more significant. But \u003ca href=\"http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/MemberContentDisplay.aspx?ccmd=ContentDisplay&ucmd=UserDisplay&userid=80\">Daniel Ravicher\u003c/a>, who argued the case against Monsanto for the group of organic farmers, says even such an opinion wouldn't completely change the legal landscape because other judges, in other courts, still could disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the battle continues. The U.S. Supreme Court is about to take up another high-profile Monsanto seed \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/bowman-v-monsanto-co/\">case\u003c/a> involving patent infringement. 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