Monsanto Suing Farmers Over Piracy Issues
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Monsanto Co.'s "seed police" snared soy farmer Homan McFarling in 1999, and the company is demanding he pay it hundreds of thousands of dollars for alleged technology piracy. McFarling's sin? He saved seed from one harvest and replanted it the following season, a revered and ancient agricultural practice.
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Procter & Gamble Co  said on Monday it sued Kraft Foods Inc.  because it claims a new plastic container for Kraft's Maxwell House coffee infringes a patent for P&G's Folgers coffee.
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Procter & Gamble Co  said on Monday it sued Kraft Foods Inc  because it claims a new plastic container for Kraft's Maxwell House coffee infringes on a patent for P&G's Folgers coffee.
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Continuing itsÂ worldwide assault on software piracy, Microsoft has filed 20 lawsuits against resellers accused of distributing unauthorized copies of its software.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - Monsanto Co.  reported on Thursday that quarterly earnings jumped 71 percent, driven by surging sales of its genetically modified corn and other seeds, sending its shares higher in early trade.
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The proprietors of the P2P file-sharing program LimeWire, who were sued last August by a coalition of the major names in the recording industry, has filed a countersuit in the U.S. District Court in New York, claiming that the RIAA is using its copyrights over recorded works as a weapon.
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In its continuing efforts to stop piracy of its software, Microsoft said Tuesday it had filed another twenty lawsuits in nine states. The Redmond company said the lawsuits were filed for various reasons, including the manufacture and distribution of pirated software.
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As part of its fight against software piracy, MicrosoftÂ on Tuesday said it filed lawsuits against eight resellers for allegedly buying and selling fake and used Certificate of Authenticity labels.
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A pair of software companies linked with the Kazaa peer-to-peer network are claiming that they hold patent rights to technology behind much of the world's Internet song-swapping and are demanding that several smaller file-sharing networks obtain licenses in order to continue operating.
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SUING MACHINE, the RIAA is on the legal defensive after a P2P software company has accused it of nicking its technology. Altnet is suing the RIAA and several of its partners of pirating its patent covering
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Monsanto chemical company is under investigation in the wake of charges it paid contractors to dump highly toxic waste into landfill sites in Britain.
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The recording industry launched a new round of lawsuits against illegal downloading Thursday (Sept. 30), the same day negotiations intensified between copyright industry executives and high-tech industry representatives on legislation aimed at companies that encourage copyright piracy via peer-to-peer networks.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said Monsanto Co.'s  $1.5 billion acquisition of top cotton seed producer Delta and Pine Land Co.  would be allowed, but the companies would have to sell a range of key assets.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Monsanto Co. MON.N, a  company that has pioneered the development of bioengineered  crops, is pushing hard to recover millions of dollars in lost  revenue in three South American countries where farmers have  sown its wonder seeds without paying royalties.
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Environmental group Greenpeace launched a  fresh attack on genetically modified maize developed by U.S.  biotech giant Monsanto, saying on Tuesday that rats fed on one  version developed liver and kidney problems.
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has announced that its member companies filed a new wave of copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 individual file-sharers.
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Recording companies filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 computer users Thursday, the latest round of legal action in the industry&#39;s effort to squelch unauthorized swapping of music online.