Monsanto sued him for infringing its Roundup Ready patents by using, without authorization, second-generation seeds embedded with its technology.

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Newer versions of this document may be provided with future seeds of the API or technology.

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Eventually Monsanto started to pull away from its rivals as it became the first seed developer to patent the gene traits of seeds and to license its technology broadly.

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Quite the opposite: The technology used to produce these seeds is a paragon of agricultural progress and benefits the environment, so those who oppose it must face some inconvenient truths.

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"The essence of ETech is our idea that you often see the seeds of the future in places where people are having fun with technology, " says Timothy O'Reilly, the founder of ETech, as well as other technology shindigs, and the publishing house that carries his name.

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Some of the fringe activist groups opposed to genetic engineering have an anti-science, anti-technology, anti-business agenda, but given the environmental advantages of Roundup-ready seeds it's puzzling that a group like the Sierra Club, one of the co-plaintiffs in the alfalfa and sugar beet litigation, is working so hard to keep the seeds off the market.

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