<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Less than a week ago, Monsanto got more than a slap on the wrist from the Indian government - they were delivered <a href="http://occupymonsanto360.org/blog/monsanto-patent-rejected-by-indian-government-and-rejection-upheld-saving-small-farmers/">two fat rejections</a> - one from the patent appeals court and another rejection that was upheld by the Intellectual Property Appellate Board.<br>
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Dismissing Monsanto's appeal were the Honorable Justice Prabha Sridevi,
Chair of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board of India, and the
Honorable Shri DPS Parmar, technical member. If you would like to
personally thank these individuals for standing up to corporate greed
and the domination of the world food supply, you can contact them via
the web addresses listed below:<br>
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<a href="http://www.ipab.tn.nic.in/">Intellectual Property Appellate Board of India</a><br>
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Monsanto's patent application was refused for both"Methods of Enhancing
Stress Tolerance in plants and methods thereof," and "A method of
producing a transgenic plant, with increasing heat tolerance, salt
tolerance or drought tolerance." The patent office refused the claims
because:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27899.cfm">http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_27899.cfm</a>
</div><div> </div><div style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);"><font style="color:rgb(255, 127, 0);font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">===============================</span><br>Chuck Palazzo<br>Agent Orange Action Group</span><br>http://aoag.org/<br><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;">Hoa Binh Chapter, Veterans For Peace</span><br>http://vfp-vn.ning.com/</font><font size="1"><font class="yui_3_2_0_2_133065404731860" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2"><br></font></font><span class="yiv118013358"></span><br><font size="1"><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" size="2">chuck_pal@yahoo.com<br>================================</font></font></div><div><span><br></span></div></div></body></html>