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> According to wikipedia[1] monsanto says they won't "exercise its patent rights where trace amounts of our patented seed or traits are present in farmer's fields as a result of inadvertent means".

Well that's telling, in that they still claim to have the right to shut down such a farmer.




They can try to claim that right, but they are smart enough to know that courts will see through that argument and so they won't try.




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