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! draft program for workshop in EU Parliament/ feedback till Wednesday
by Christoph Then 15 Sep '22

15 Sep '22

Dear all last week, we had a nice exchange with Maria Noichl, Social Democrats, Member of EU Parliament. we are now planning for a workshop in EU Parliament organised by MEPs in second half of November. On later stage, we might try to start a resolution. To support the plans, we promised to send a draft program by this week. Please see my draft attached. I think we should plan for two hours. I suggest to invite (in addition to the brewers) at least one stakeholder which is not part of no patents on seeds, but likely to support our demands. Possible stakeholders are COPA/COGECA (supporting our petition), Plantum (but maybe mixed messages) or the EPO (but we would not have any control on their input). I suggest Thor Kofoed /COPA. For the part of the brewers I try to get an expert from German brewers association (biggest one) which is also involved in programs for breeding barley. But it is not clear if this will work. please send your comments till Wednesday. After that I will send it to Maria. She may propose some further changes. After that (If we agree on it) she will use the program to approach other MEPs to invite for the workshop. Further changes may be suggested. thanks for your input Christoph

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please confirm your participation in talk with Dutch authority
by Christoph Then 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

Dear all we are invited to online meeting with Dutch authorities /experts on 19 of September. I noted interest from Oxfam and Francois to participate. I would need some confirmation asap, also in case others want to participate. Thanks for a quick feedback Christoph

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decision Carlsberg (for preparation of appeal)
by Christoph Then 11 Sep '22

11 Sep '22

dear all please see attached the decision on Carlsberg. I already transferred the fee for appeal and send a letter to announce the appeal beginning next week. it looks like we have two months in addition to give the detailed reasoning for our opposition. I will circulate this draft as soon as possible. I did not work on it yet. Cheers Christoph

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Fwd: European IP Helpdesk - Follow up email: Interface between PVRs and Patents
by Judith Düesberg 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

Dear round, I am sending you the slides and the link to the recording of yesterday's webinar "Interface between PVRs and Patents" from the European in Helpdesk. On 21.09 there will be another webinar on intellectual property rights in biotechnologies and on 28.09 another one on intellectual property rights in plants. It is good information but a clearly different point of view than us. Kind regards Judith -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: European IP Helpdesk - Follow up email: Interface between PVRs and Patents Datum: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 15:30:57 +0200 Von: EU IP HD Training Team <training(a)iprhelpdesk.eu> An: 'EU IP HD Training Team' <training(a)iprhelpdesk.eu> Kopie (CC): helpline(a)iprhelpdesk.eu Dear all, It was a great pleasure to welcome you at our session on “Interface between PVRs and Patents”. Please find here the *link <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/8202678226236479503>* to follow the recording of our session and the slides as PDF file attached. Additionally have a look at some useful links: * European IP Helpdesk E-Learning with all sessions of 2021 <https://intellectual-property-helpdesk.ec.europa.eu/regional-helpdesks/euro…> * Submit your question to the Helpline <https://intellectual-property-helpdesk.ec.europa.eu/regional-helpdesks/euro…> * Check out if you are eligible for the Horizon IP Scan <https://intellectual-property-helpdesk.ec.europa.eu/horizon-ip-scan_en> * Open Science Vs Horizon Europe <https://intellectual-property-helpdesk.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/open-s…> Kind regards, *Training Team* Beschreibung: European Logo European IP Helpdesk *c/o EURICE - European Research and Project Office GmbH *Heinrich-Hertz-Allee 1 66386 St. Ingbert Germany eMail: training(a)iprhelpdesk.eu <mailto:training@iprhelpdesk.eu> Web: www.iprhelpdesk.eu <http://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/> The European IP Helpdesk provides free-of-charge first-line information on IP-related issues aiming to help current and potential beneficiaries of EU-funded projects, as well as EU SMEs, manage their Intellectual Property assets. This support is not and should not be considered as of a legal or advisory nature. At the same time, this information cannot be considered as the official position of the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) or the European Commission. Neither EISMEA nor the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of EISMEA or of the European Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of this information.

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Salvia application
by Johanna Eckhardt 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Dear all, I just sent you the amended draft for the application of the Salvia grant (December 2022 - November 2025) via Proton. Please note that I only sent it to the people who have a Proton email address. The deadline to file the application is Monday, 12 September. Please let us know if you have any important comments until latest Sunday, 11 September. As agreed at our last conference call, keep in mind that we can always amend the strategy outlined in the proposal and that we will adapt some details probably anyways during the course of the next three years. What will be more important in regards to decisions about NPOS strategy will be the discussion of our annual planning / strategy that we will decide on at the meeting of members. 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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Intern ARCHE NOAH / No patents on seeds!
by Johanna Eckhardt 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Dear all, ARCHE NOAH is looking for a new intern that will as well support No patents on seeds! - Start in October or January - 3 months, around 25h/week - in Vienna - the deadline for applications has been prolonged to 20 September. More info: https://arche-noah.at/ueber-uns/jobs-und-praktika I shared it as well on Facebook and Twitter. Feel free to share. 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 Conference call 5 September
by Johanna Eckhardt 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

Dear all, I am back from holidays. I hope you had nice summer days, too. Please find below the draft agenda for our conference call on Monday. The Zoom details are in the email below. Best, Johanna --- 1. Updates 1.1. from countries / member organisations 2. Next steps and further strategy 2.1. More confrontational approach towards governments - Send another round of letters at the beginning of September - Wait for feedback until the end of September - Public activities in October/November in front of ministries - Workshop with experts at the beginning of October . prepare report? 2.2. Reach out to companies 2.3. Public outreach - label seed packages 2.4. Other - work on our argumentation line - further allies (farmer organisations, breeders,...) - national laws 3. Patents 3.1. beer patent 3.2. KWS patent - deadline for opposition: 15 March 2023 4. Other 4.1. Application Salvia (grant period 2023-2025) - draft sent via Proton by Johanna on 18 July 2022 4.2. Planning and budget 2023 4.3. Meeting of members 2023 - date? 4.4. coordination of German/English conference calls (possible translation) 4.5. next conference call 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: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 12:00 PM To: npos_2018(a)testbiotech.de Subject: [Npos_2018] IMPORTANT Conference call 5 September Dear all, let's fix our next conference call for Monday, 5 September 14h - 15.30h CET. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89606627449?pwd=MFg5cXlNWmNrMXZoWWFaK2NmdjU0UT09 Meeting ID: 896 0662 7449 Passcode: 032080 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbPusY0mpF 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 < <mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de> npos_2018-bounces(a)testbiotech.de> On Behalf Of Johanna Eckhardt Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2022 2:43 PM To: <mailto:npos_2018@testbiotech.de> npos_2018(a)testbiotech.de Subject: [Npos_2018] Conference call September - Dudle Dear all, here is the dudle for the conference call in September. https://dud-poll.inf.tu-dresden.de/kaXOYcWLNQ/ Please fill it out until Wednesday, 13 July, 14h. 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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! discussion on further strategy and activities
by Christoph Then 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

Dear all, on September 5 we will have next zoom meeting. This will an important meeting, because we have to take some decisions about further strategy very soon. The reason: We have to file a new application to Salvia with a strategy for three years. And we will have to file an new application to Gen ethical Foundation. And also our member organisations have to know what our plans are. So this mail is about to start further discussions. I also will draft a text document, in this mail I just want to circulate some general ideas and analysis in advance. 1. We should become more confrontative with governments We will not achieve our goal for a call of an international conference. So far, we gained some support and managed to show urgency, but this will, by far, not sufficient. Therefore we should organise out handover in a more confrontative way. We should choose governments which know about the issue very well (Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Denmark, maybe Spain and France) but did not get active. So we could organise a public events in front of the ministry, also without handover and blame them for doing nothing (we still can do friendly handover in addition). 2. We should start talks & confrontation with selected companies We should start direct talks with KWS, asking them to drop their patent applications. We should not expect KWS to become our supporter, but at least to trigger a debate with public impact. We could run public activities at their their offices (in several countries). 3. broaden public outreach There is the idea to 'lable' seed packages with a message saying somtheing 'only use patent-free seeds!'. we could discuss with some friendly breeders or seed producers like Arche Noah oer Bionext if they would like to spread the message by this way to an important target group. Maybe this also would have some impact on other breeders to start discussions. 4. In addition, we will file opposition against the KWS patent and appeal against Carlsberg decision (the written decision is available now, we can draft our arguments) and also continue debate with the EPO. These activities are all meant to create synergies to move forward the political decision makers to take action. However, we may not try to set further deadlines like we did with the international conference. We should not expand our activities in terms of diplomatic conferences, changes of law as long as we do not have much more support. We also will not change our goals. We also should not expect a quick solution. But we should be aware that we are the only organisation acting against patents on seeds and likely the only chance to stop it. If we move forward some governments for example to change national laws and wake up some more breeders (or other stakeholders like brewers) we still have a chance to make progress. So if you have to send me your thoughts, I can try to include in the preparation of the strategy-paper which we will need to achieve further funding. Cheers Christoph

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Meeting with MInistry in Den Hag on 19 September
by Christoph Then 01 Sep '22

01 Sep '22

dear all we received an invitation for a meeting with the ministry in Den Hag / NL on 19 September in the afternoon. who would be interested to join? it might be online, or physical, not yet decided. Cheers Christoph

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Fwd: [New-gm-eur] Genesprout conference on patents and plants
by Christoph Then 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

fyi Dear all, In the new docs from the EC on genome editing, there is this information on a conference held in June organised by Genesprout on patents. Here is the full conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RH63L0A5Fw I haven't watched the whole, but should be informative about how our opponents think they will address the issue of patents and New GM. See also this tweet highlighting the importance of patents in the NGT debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RH63L0A5Fw Best, Nina

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