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Patenting of the soy genome - source?

 
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Not sure exactly where to post this…
I have come across the statement that Monsanto has patented the entire soy genome.
I have been trying to find the patent, or some way to trace back to it, but my web search skills have failed me.
Does anyone have this link? Either to a patent or to a legal argument made by Monsanto/Bayer that any of their GMO patents actually include the entire genome?

Thanks in advance!
 
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I got a moosage with this:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_1b7d.pdf

Which seems to rule that naturally occurring genes cannot  be patented. Has this been reversed? Or applied differently to soy?
 
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Lina Joana wrote:
I have come across the statement that Monsanto has patented the entire soy genome.
I have been trying to find the patent, or some way to trace back to it, but my web search skills have failed me.



You haven’t found it because it doesn’t exist.

Monsanto owns a bunch of specific patents around GMO soya, but no such general genome patent as you describe.

Monsanto and GMO tech get used in scare stories all the time, frequently to manipulate people for some other agenda. “Look at this evil thing that Monsanto has done” is a well trodden path for like-farming on social media, which is worth real money. Such claims don’t need to be true to be widely shared and believed. And the very existence of legitimate specific patents for soya genes opens the door for the claims like the one you refer to.
 
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