In a 5-4 decision, the court sided with the biotech giant, which sued Percy Schmeiser in 1997 after Monsanto agents found the company's patented gene in canola plants on his farm near Saskatoon ...

The landmark 5 to 4 decision marks the first time a high ... But opponents of genetically engineered food and other activists, for whom Schmeiser has grown to be a folk hero, vowed to continue ...

On Friday, May 21, 2004 in a 5:4 split decision, the Canadian Supreme Court upheld the decisions of both the Federal and Appeal courts, and confirmed the finding that Percy Schmieser, by knowingly ...

The Supreme Court of Canada has sided with the U.S. biotechnology giant Monsanto in the firm's patent fight against Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser ... court ruled in a 5-4 decision that ...

Schmeiser insisted the seeds had blown onto his field in the wind and that he owned them. Monsanto sued him, and in the end, the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 that ...

Percy Schmeiser, whose family tilled the rich soil of his native Saskatchewan for more than a century, was taken to court for seed piracy in a case that generated headlines around the world.