So let me now come to closure and say why this matter will be settled in one month from this interview by the Supreme Court of the United States. I believe it was Monsanto again who discovered a weed killer. In the United States, the weed killer is called Roundup – it probably has a different name in different countries – and it's a very efficient weed killer. They also found a gene that would override the effects of this weed killer that they could insert into corn, soybeans, and other major industrial crops, so that when those plants grew, spraying the field with Roundup will kill all the weeds for the entire season and the corn and soy, etc., will grow luxuriantly and save enormous amounts of money in the job of ridding the fields of weeds.

And this was approved. Most of those products in the United States are produced in that way today. I don't think it's true in Europe because of Europe's concern about putting in novel genes into food products. But a subsequent event raised the issue to the level of legal decision-making, namely a farmer, a small farmer in Iowa a few years ago went down to his friend at a local silo where was stored a mountain of corn that contained the gene produced by Monsanto and who sold those seeds to that... those farmers. This farmer went to his friend at the silo and for a few dollars got himself a bucket of corn seeds and seeded his field, avoiding the increased payment he would have had to make to Monsanto, and, believing that he had a right to do this, planted his field. And when Monsanto learnt about this, they brought suit against this farmer and said, 'We own all of the corn produced from the original seeds that were sold to the farmer from whom you bought for $2 a bucket of seeds.' Well, that's the exact principle that I was concerned about since 1962 and for which a decision had never been made. Even my out-of-court... out-of-court agreement is not a legal decision.

So this has now gone all the way up to the Supreme Court, and in June of 2013 it will be decided. We expect that Monsanto will win this case, and that anything produced from those original corn seeds belong to Monsanto, no matter how many generations beyond that seeds can be found. I wonder what that means in respect to my ownership of WI-38. Of course, I never patented it, so that puts me at a disadvantage immediately, but had I patented it, I might own the world's supply of WI-38, which would make me sufficiently wealthy to buy London, I think.