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Right. And that's because the patentability of a seed or plant was decided by SCOTUS in 2001 in J. E. M. Ag Supply, Inc. v. Pioneer Hi-Bred Int’l, Inc., 534 U. S. 124 (2001). People who keep hoping for a ruling from SCOTUS that organisms aren't patentable are living in the past.


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