• Tip Of the Iceberg—Monsanto Buys A Lettuce
• Rijk Zwaan Patent for multi-leaf trait in lettuce
• Syngenta Patent on alternative to Salanova® trait
• Rijk Zwaan Patent Case—No-Patents-On-Seeds.org
• Seminus Patent on horizontal (quantitative) resistance to downy mildew in lettuce
• Rijk Zwaan Patent for lettuce combining resistance to aphids and downy mildew with red oak-shaped leaves of substantially the equal size.
• Rijk Zwaan Patent for lettuce with resistance to aphids, downy mildew, and lettuce mosaic virus, and which may be light green, moderately glossy, deeply-incised, strongly undulating leaves.
• Syngenta Patent for pleasant taste in melon
• Rijk Zwaan's Updated Policy on patents and breeders rights; more relaxed, allows breeder exemption.

Printed in the 2013 Wild Garden Seed Catalog.