Much of the resistance against GMOs is not so much against purely nutritional genetic modification (like golden rice - rice with added beta-carotene for vitamin A), but to genetic modification to prop up business models, like terminator genes, roundup-ready and Bt genes.
Terminator genes aren't used is any commercial crop. The last two make farming easier and more productive so they are very popular amoung the farmers (even the family farms)
Patents exist outside GMOs. Honey crisp Apple's we're under patent for example.
The patent claim against GMO is a canard.
Right, that's why I stated my parenthetical the way I did.