April 2020 - Npos_2018 - lists.testbiotech.de

Now, after the report is published ..
by Christoph Then 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

Dear all, this was hard work, but we managed a as team very well. Thanks to you all! I would not expect media many reports (although we tried in Germany) but the main target group for our work under Corona can not be just journalists. Good news: We already received E-Mail from German Parliament that they will use the report to restart to debate, they might try to organise an online conference... let us see. But this is the direction we now have to take: We have to run a wake up call before the Enlarged Board publishes its decision. (1) Please use the report as much as you can to inform your parliament, government, experts. (2) Johanna could develop a series of postings in social media, using the 11 examples. (3) we also have to prepare media communication for the upcoming decision of the Enlarged Board (4) we have to consider to run another push (maybe using new examples) before the meeting of the AC in June (I guess there will be some gathering, maybe just online). (5) we could discuss that our office tries to get in contact directly with governments / national experts in countries were we do not have a representative (Italy? France? Spain? Poland? others?). I will draft a letter that will be sent to the Members of the AC next week. However in some countries we might need more activities. In addition I now will try to sort out some organisatorial issues, also together with the Board, which I did not have the time yet. I also will prepare letters to call for the outstanding funding. I also was asked to add Fulya (working with Arche Noah before) to the list which is working on a EU educational project with NGOs. I would agree. Maybe Fulya can send some more informations. So let us congratulate each other, I think we did a good job under difficult conditions and now can look forward to achieve our goals. do we need a phone call in May? Cheers Christoph

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some media response in German
by Christoph Then 26 Apr '20

26 Apr '20

just came across - not much, but better than nothing... https://www.topagrar.com/acker/news/umweltschuetzer-kritisieren-patentanmel… https://www.food-monitor.de/2020/04/elf-gruende-warum-europa-patente-auf-pf…

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Today's press release / Report 2020
by Johanna Eckhardt no-patents-seeds.org 23 Apr '20

23 Apr '20

Dear all, today's press release has been sent out and the report is published. Thank you very much to all of you who cooperated with the new report! You can find the press release <https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/node/628> and the report <https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/background/publications> on our homepage. I posted as well on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds> and Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed> - please share! Still to come: the Danish version of the report and a French summary of the report. Best, Johanna Johanna ECKHARDT Project Coordination Tel. +43 680 21 26 343 <mailto:johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org> johanna.eckhardt(a)no-patents-on-seeds.org NO PATENTS ON SEEDS! <http://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/> www.no-patents-on-seeds.org <http://www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds> www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds <http://www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed> www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed

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englisch version - very final draft
by Christoph Then 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

some more small corrections looks like we are done.

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Deutsche Version des Berichtes - finaler Draft
by Christoph Then 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

hoffe, das passt so ...

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final draft Report EN
by Christoph Then 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Dear all please see final draft, including the full changes form Rijk. It looks like Johanna found some minor edits which will be included in the final final version. If needed, you can use this version to inform media (I guess Bram had some idea) or others you think are very important (I will inform the EPO and Belgium Ministry which asked us to do so). Cheers Christoph

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final PR
by Christoph Then 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

dear all, Please see attached. Katherine and Martha still have to send their contact details. Johanna hopefully will render final versions, the English version will undergo final edits by native speaker. hope this is ok for everybody. Let us try for Thursday. I hope we also will have the Danish (full report) and French (part report) versions till then. In the Danish and French version of the PR (if prepared), please take the first quote by Erling and Anne Charlotte and also include contact details. Cheers, Christoph

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new version of the media release de und en
by Christoph Then 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Dear all, please see attached new draft versions of the PR for Thursday. I would need final comments till Monday evening, if possible. thanks to te good suggestions from Katherine and Daniela (FOE Germany) I found a way to shorten it and two include two quotes. After having read the proposals made by Katherine, I think it is important to not have to many details in the PR. We might draft a letter to the EPO where we can include further details, but anyway they are in the report. So I used mostly used the the more simplified version of Daniela. Hope everybody can agree. You also can use the draft for preparing your own PR, but I guess most of yow will wait for the Enlarged Board of Appeal. Short notice: I again asked the EPO and they again responded that they do not know the date. But we will get informed (we still have to prepare a PR in two versions for that day). I will approach the German media agency (dpa) if they are interested to get the report before hand. Cheers Christoph

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the fulls statement of Rijk in en and de
by Christoph Then 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

thanks from Bram for checking it. the version as attached is now meant to go to the report.

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final text elements inserted after Brams suggestions
by Christoph Then 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Dear all please see attached the final text elements I now would insert into the report in accordance with suggestions made by Bram: 1. the repsonse from Rijk: as suggested 2. the footnote on KWS: I had to change the wording from Bram. KWS does not comment on the decision of the AC (2017) but on the Technical Board. Nevertheless, an interesting statement. 3. the co-inventor with KWS: I looked in all examples again, this seems to be the only missing co-inventor. In addition, Johanna made some suggestions for details in editing. I all will now forward to layout. Erling can you please insert the new passages as attached into the Danish version? After that please send the final Danish version and I will try to organise the layout. Thanks a lot!! Cheers Christoph

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