Dear all

we agreed to file the opposition against the bushy melon around 14
December. please see attached draft in German. I already included some
first comments form patent lawyers, an now will send this new version to
them.

sorry it is only in German, I will try prepare to take the facts to the
English media release, maybe I manage a short backgrounder.

some explanations:

we have two opponents. Since I am not employee nor a legal
representative of No Patents on seeds, we should include my person as
individual opponent. If we hand over to patent attorneys, this would not
be necessary. But if we do not, this may save us the possibility of me
representing the opposition.

I still have to work on the references.

I also might introduce a few sentences about claims 17-19, because these
claims might fall because of rule 28. The rest of the patent we have to
win under Art 56 (should be possible).

In any case I need a GO from the Board to go on. Further comments
welcome. But sorry, not much time left. In case morr time is needed, we
also could wait for the Admin Council to take place and then file this
opposition in reaction.

Christoph