Dear all
thanks for these comments.
sorry Francois that I sent two versions of the petition in German. Some issues were already solved in version 5, my fault.
Two comments for all folks on this list:
Since CRISPR-patents are a the focus in our mobilisation, I would keep specific mentioning of 'mutations'. Crossing and Selection is not the main concern with these CRISPR patents.
I also would not drop our third demand. If we drop this, we might loose crucial aspects in our mobilisation. Further we would take a step back in comparison to the communications as already used in the last communiques.
This demand is also useful for mobilising because it is the only one which touches genetically engineered plants and animals: If only process patents are granted, only those plants and animals will be patented which are directly produced by this processes. Therefore, any questions concerning if we are happy with CRISPR patents can be answered that we at want to reduce their scope (see report from 2018).
please consider: genetic engineering is used as wording in EU patent directive 98/44 but not in the GMO legislation. We can define genetic engineering within the meaning of patent law. We are NOT referring to GMO regulation.
I added some further comments in the document - see attached
I will send revised versions in German and English today.
Cheers
Christoph
Am 18.11.21 um 18:48 schrieb francois.meienberg@prospecierara.ch:
Lieber Christoph, liebe Alle Vielen Dank dafür. Finde die neue Version einiges besser - auch die Zweiteilung. Anbei dennoch noch ein paar Anmerkungen und Vorschläge. Mit lieben Grüssen François
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Npos_2018 npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de Im Auftrag von Christoph Then Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. November 2021 16:02 An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Betreff: [Npos_2018] neue Version der Petition (English still missing)
There were several comments from Dagmar and Francois. I tried to integrate.
Further, I was a little cautious on animals. I deleted the examples which might have caused debates about revoked or lapsed patents, I kept it more general.
I took over the idea from Dagmar to summarize the first part for the petition. I think we should have an explanatory text (first part) and a shorter text which is the real petition.
There was the idea to demand to restrict the patents to regulated genetic engineering. I would avoid this, because these legal frameworks are separated and I think it is important to explain this (again) to those which want to have random mutations to be regulated as genetic engineering. There is not much in common between GMO regulation and patent law.
on the text for the visual. How about:
Internationale Konferenz um Patente auf Saatgut stoppen!
International Conference to stop patents on seeds!
I continue to work on english verion and draft PR.