[nightdriver]

"If someone observes a correlation between X and Y and then announces he is going to use that correlation in a lab test, is that a patentable process?

Might not this potential ruling also affect genetic modification?

It would appear that only the process that modifies the genetics would be patentable, not the end product.

Monsanto might just have to quit suing those farmers whos adjacent fields get Monsanto's modified pollen blown into them.

[steelie]

"Monsanto might just have to quit suing those farmers whos adjacent fields get Monsanto's modified pollen blown into them."

That farmer specifically selected the resistant plants through several generations of growings to steal the traits for his own use.