I don't see how this idiotic EULA can be enforceable. A farmer buying seeds from Monsanto is one thing: it's a business deal, Monsanto (or their resellers) can tack such a restriction onto the deal and it's obviously enforceable -- to a point.
But for fruits sold in a grocery store ... even if the language in the one line "contract" turned out to be enforceable, which would completely retarded but could unfortunately happen, there's an obvious and immediate flaw. It's one line, so it evidently doesn't include any provision for a grocery buyer just gifting the seeds to a grower. Even if it did, what's the recourse? Get a homeless person to spit the seeds from the grapes he just bought in a cup. Who you gonna sue? How much is the patent holder going to get from a lice-infested, pee-smelling indigent? Why do they even bother putting that there?
But for fruits sold in a grocery store ... even if the language in the one line "contract" turned out to be enforceable, which would completely retarded but could unfortunately happen, there's an obvious and immediate flaw. It's one line, so it evidently doesn't include any provision for a grocery buyer just gifting the seeds to a grower. Even if it did, what's the recourse? Get a homeless person to spit the seeds from the grapes he just bought in a cup. Who you gonna sue? How much is the patent holder going to get from a lice-infested, pee-smelling indigent? Why do they even bother putting that there?
Then there's patent exhaustion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaustion_doctrine_under_U.S....