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all 11 visuals for report / Update / resend maybe it did not go through
by Christoph Then 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

dear all I hope you are well! please see attached the 11 visuals - any changes needed? I think they will work for website and social media as well. on the report: Final comments were received from Bram and Katherine - we are working on it. Cheers Christoph

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all 11 visuals for report / Update
by Christoph Then 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

dear all I hope you are well! please see attached the 11 visuals - any changes needed? I think they will work for website and social media as well. on the report: Final comments were received from Bram and Katherine - we are working on it. Cheers Christoph

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some more visuals and short update on the report
by Christoph Then 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Dear all, please see attached some more visuals. thanks for the positive feedback so far! on the text: We finshed most text work in German and English and should be ready to send an advanced draft end of the week. Cheers Christoph

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first three visuals for our report
by Christoph Then 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

and following activities in social media etc this is just again to ask you about the general style.... comments welcome.

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the first (nearly) full draft of the report and tabled overview for media strategy
by Christoph Then 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Dear all please see first nearly full draft of the upcoming report. Please give feedback till end of the week. Please try to avoid to insert technical functions in the text which are not necessary, we will try to save the format as it is for final stage of editing. Meanwhile we will try to run first translations of the examples into German and organise some visuals. In addition, we consider to add a list of explanations on specific terms used in 'patent world', now marked in red. Further, some passage marked in yellow, indicate some elements just added or still need to be added. The summary will be accomplished as soon as we received your comments. Arche might plan for media release on 24 March, using the cancellation of the Admin Council as a hook and the example for new patents on beer. We also would plan to send out media release for no patents on seeds on that day. I tried to make a tabled proposal for media work, also attached. Cheers Christoph

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new design for our visuals
by Christoph Then 21 Mar '20

21 Mar '20

Dear all being aware of 11 examples (or even more) we want to highlight in our report and spread via social media, I am looking for a series of visuals with simple elements that can be combined easily and flexible. In addition it should be somehow unique and easily to be recognized. I asked professional we are working with at Testbiotech. Please see attached his version of the beer patent (of course we still can use the old visual as well). He now would produce 11 visuals in the same style. What do you think? each visual would cost us around 90 €. thanks for some comments Christoph

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Fwd: Verfassungsgericht zum Einheitspatent
by Christoph Then 20 Mar '20

20 Mar '20

Good news: German Court stops the Unitary Patent (but finally it still might go through, if a two third majority would vote for it in favour) https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/patentgericht-101.html we will try to work with German Parliament on it. Maybe we should also come up with a joint letter from NPOS.

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Fwd: [Genet-forum] The status of patenting plants in the Global South
by Christoph Then 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Most of you already will know ... Note: Open access. ===== Correa, C. M., Correa, J. I., & De Jonge, B. (2020). The status of patenting plants in the Global South. The Journal of World Intellectual Property. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jwip.12143 Abstract Over the last few decades, the number of patents on plants and plant parts has greatly increased in various parts of the world. Most research, however, has focused exclusively on developed countries—the United States and European Union states in particular—while little is known about the extent to which plants are being patented in other parts of the world. This article aims to fill this information gap by providing an overview of the status of patenting plants in the developing countries and emerging economies of the Global South. The research is based on the analysis of legal provisions, patentability guidelines, court decisions (where they exist) and a sample of patents granted in the countries selected for this study. The findings indicate that despite the flexibilities of the World Trade Organization Trade‐Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement regarding the nonpatentability of plants, 60% of the 126 countries in the Global South for which data were available to allow for the patenting of plants or parts thereof, and many such patents have been identified. This situation warrants further reflection and, potentially, review of existing patent laws as developing countries search for ways of responding optimally to the needs of feeding a growing population while adapting to the challenges of climate change.

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my availability/ holidays / update report
by Christoph Then 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Dear all, looks like I wiII not be on holidays as planned. Instead, ít is likely I will be present in April. there is progress with the report: Most parts are ready to go for review and then to translation. I plan to send it to the editorial team tomorrow. take care Christoph

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update on the content of the report and media strategy
by Christoph Then 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

Dear all it seems that we now have a group of editors working on the report, which will discuss some drafts and content. Very good (see other mail). Besides that I wanted to share with all of you my latest selection of 8 examples of plants (which will be part of the report). It tries to cover the most relevant categories of patent applications. 4 are on mutation breeding (sent around earlier, small changes added in red color) and 4 are on other examples. Are we happy with this selection as starter? Are we happy with the short description as used which somehow tries to follow a standard pattern (what is claimed? what is the invention? what is the technical topping? what is the problem? will it be granted?) If we agree, we can finalise these examples in English and German and use them for starting the media work / public outreach, even if the report is not yet ready to go. Media work / strategy: as soon as we agreed our examples we would * finalise the text (in at least German and English, maybe French, Danish and Portuguese) * prepare visuals for each example * start media communication (drafting press releases) and social media work. By doing so, we could closely cooperate with the campaign work as going on in Austria to gain synergies and more public outreach. In parallel I keep on working on the report (also adding the examples on animals) which will be needed as soon as the Enlarged Board publishes its decision. I will exchange further drafts with the group of editors. So please till end of upcoming week let us know if the examples should be used for further campaign work. Cheers Christoph

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