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Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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How does Monsanto avoid this?
They sell you seeds. You can grow things with those seeds, but you cant plant the grown plants' seeds.
In that case, it's a patented product that happens to reproduce itself as part of its normal operation.
In this case, it's just shitty business behavior.
(To be clear, no, living organisms should not be patentable. But it'd be fucking hilarious if patented genes went feral.)
On the plus side, some of those patents have already expired.
It's even worse than that. You can buy seeds from the market place have no agreement with Monsanto but can't plant those seeds.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowman_v._Monsanto_Co.