Today's Bangor Daily (Bangor, Maine, USA) has an article from the Washington Post by Rick Weiss concerning a lawsuit in Bruno Saskatchewan where a farmer is being sued by Monsanto for "seed piracy". The company claims that the farmer replanted their roundup resistant canola. The farmer claims that his seed was contaminated via pollination. The article also mentions the "terminator" gene which Monsanto is purchasing the patent rights . This technology was developed in part by the federal government. Does the terminator gene spread via pollen? Does it prevent the plant from making pollen? According to the article, the technology is not expected to be available commercially until 2005 and ensures that the plant will not make seed.