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Heads-up: Report about New GM and Patents next week (20th)
by ARCHE NOAH Dagmar Urban 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

Hi all, I wanted to give you a quick heads-up about a media briefing and a report on new GMOs and patents which will be published next Thursday (October 20th). It's the report I already talked about in calls in spring, the focus is on new GMOs, but of course there are some overlaps to patents on conventional seeds. On board are Global2000, Friends of the Earth EU, CEO, the Austrian chamber of labour/"Arbeiterkammer", IG Saatgut and ARCHE NOAH. The report is more of a summary of the situation in non-technical language to reach new audiences. I was also a great opportunity to talk to more organisations about patents. We will do some media work on it in Austria together with Global2000 (we meaning Katherine and Axel) and hope to both increase public discussions on patents again, as well as to add the aspect of patents on new GMOs to the current discussion about the push for deregulating them. If you have any questions, just let us know :) Best, Dagmar Dagmar Urban Team Saatgutpolitik/ Seed Policy Team ARCHE NOAH Gesellschaft für die Erhaltung der Kulturpflanzenvielfalt und ihre Entwicklung Obere Straße 40, A-3553 Schiltern +43 (0)676 /931 81 80 dagmar.urban(a)arche-noah.at www.arche-noah.at<http://www.arche-noah.at/> ZVR 907994719 PS: Missbrauch des Patentrechts stoppen - jetzt unterschreiben<http://www.keinpatentaufsaatgut.at/>

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! program for workshop in EU Parliament
by Christoph Then 12 Oct '22

12 Oct '22

dear all please see attached latest version of our draft program. we now will make final version in exchange with the experts and the MEPs we also should add some layout (Johanna?). After we should start to invite. Cheers Christoph

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Meeting with Bulgaria
by Johanna Eckhardt 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

Dear all, good news. We have a meeting with Bulgaria (Patent office and Variety Testing Agency) on Thursday, 27 October, 9.30h CET, most likely online. In case you want to join, please let me know. Best, Johanna Mag. 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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IMPORTANT Next conference call 3 November
by Johanna Eckhardt 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

Dear all, let's fix Thursday, 3 November from 11h to 12.30h CET for our next conference call. Here are the Zoom details: --- Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88341475488?pwd=MDlnN0VkbWF2dnlJelF5WTNIMFNvQT09 Meeting ID: 883 4147 5488 Passcode: 584337 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbxTK93ax3 --- Best, Johanna Mag. 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 From: Npos_2018 <npos_2018-bounces(a)testbiotech.de> On Behalf Of Johanna Eckhardt Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:18 PM To: npos_2018(a)testbiotech.de Subject: [Npos_2018] Next conference call Dear all, please fill in the dudle for our next conference call at the end of October UNTIL WEDNESDAY, 5 OCTOBER / 9h. https://dud-poll.inf.tu-dresden.de/jA93gJK1JA/ Duration: 90min Thank you. Best, Johanna Mag. 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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Next conference call
by Johanna Eckhardt 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

Dear all, please fill in the dudle for our next conference call at the end of October UNTIL WEDNESDAY, 5 OCTOBER / 9h. https://dud-poll.inf.tu-dresden.de/jA93gJK1JA/ Duration: 90min Thank you. Best, Johanna Mag. 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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draft arguments for appeal against Carlsberg (deutsch und englisch)
by Christoph Then 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Dear all please see attached in German the draft input for our appeal against Carlsberg. In English, there are two Annexes, backgrounders which you might want to read. No hurry yet, but I would like to share this draft with the other opponents. So maybe you can come back to me with first comments till end of the week. Cheers Christoph

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New report from ETC
by Christoph Then 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

https://www.etcgroup.org/content/amidst-rising-hunger-new-report-shows-corp…

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! Activities for this year /please come back till end of next week
by Christoph Then 23 Sep '22

23 Sep '22

Dear all, we have to plan our activities for the rest of the year and the handing over of our petition. as written in previous mails, we do not expect to get a conference organized as demanded within the period of time as planned. Therefore, we want to prolong our activities (and adapt our strategies) for around 3 years. However, we should not forget to organise handovers of our petition before the end of the year! currently, and with support from WeMove (also additional funding might be possible, if needed; they also may take videos from our actions), we are planning for some activities: * hand over of the petition in Berlin. We are just about to await a report on patents prepared by German government and then will try to fix a date in Berlin. It is likely that we (again) will only be outside in the street, but we think this activity will help to push the German government ahead. * go to the EPO on 13 December for the last meeting of the Admin council. We propose this is the final end of the petition. * in addition, we discuss to visit the KWS at their annual meeting in Einbeck on 6 December. further activities are the appeal against Carlsberg, the opposition against the patent of KWS and a workshop with EU Parliament on 16 November. To prepare our public actvities, we could organise some new visuals: It is time, to have a 'screaming maize' with us (same feature as the screaming veggies). Further, for the hand over at the EPO, we need some additional elements, to look fresh and innovative. We could use the 'screaming maize' to be printed on packages with organic maize seeds. The overall number of kernels may be the same as the number of signatures. we could organise 38 packages for symbolic hand over of the petition. If everything works out as planned, we will have an additional campaigner with us to drive the transporter with the 'screaming elements' and to help us to prepare and de-roll our actions. So for the moment please send back your comments. Please also consider if you want to organise a hand over of the petition this year (we hope there will be opportunities for public actions also next year), in case we could try to travel with our 'screaming elements' or provide you with some maize kernel packages. so let us move ahead and have a nice weekend! Christoph

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some updates: Talk with Dutch officials and Salvia
by Christoph Then 23 Sep '22

23 Sep '22

dear all yesterday we had direct exchange with Dutch officials which deal with patent law and innovation. Johanna, Nout, Bram, Francois and me participated. They took our concerns with interest, however they also noted that industry is not very active yet (which is decisive for them). Bram suggested to organise a round table with the Dutch officials and Dutch breeders. This was taken up as a good proposal. We also should consider the idea of Arche Noah, to come up with a letter from breeders (and farmers and maybe Copa/Cogeca). We would need 'mainstream breeders' but, of course, also organic breeders should show up. It might be a god idea to start with breeders from one country such as Austria. These breeders then could help us to spread the network. I will ask Bingenheim about their idea. In case, please make suggestion whom to contact. We also should agree on a text that can be signed as a letter. maybe Dagmar could provide us with a first draft. This letter could also be used to make further contacts with KWS. In addition, we were in contact with Salvia. It looks like all technicalities regarding the report on the old project and the application of the new project were successfully solved by Johanna. So now let us keep fingers crossed. we also will send out a new round of letters to remind the experts of the EPO states to come back to us because of the petition. Cheers Christoph

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Minutes Conference call 5 September
by Johanna Eckhardt 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

Dear all, with some delay, please find attached the minutes of our conference call from 5 September. I included as well some conclusions from the meeting in the German round, such as most importantly - KWS has its shareholder meeting on 6 December, that we could use for a public activity - from now on we will have the German calls always before the English calls so that we can properly discuss ideas that came up with the whole group. Best, Johanna Mag. 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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