Farmer’s Supreme Court Challenge Puts Monsanto Patents at Risk

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37. I've just observed

that generally speaking, patent and copyright law have been given more deference than other types of property law. Anthony Kennedy clearly comes down on that side. All we have to have is the four Neanderthals and him, and we've got Monsanto winning a victory in court.

You call it greed, I call it financial motivation. Yes, it can go to wretched excess, but I don't see us living in a society that progresses unless individuals are allowed to make a buck off of their inventions, discoveries, and other intellectual property rights. It's a principle that the SCOTUS has stood with for centuries. Agree or disagree with the principle, but other than a ruling that favored parody a decade or two ago, I simply cannot think of any major SCOTUS decisions that went against it.