Dear all
welcome back from summer break.
within last weeks, Erling tried to arrange some happenings in Denmark and Norway, however could not succeed. Thanks to Erling and lets us start a new try on a better date ...
there are already up to three events for this autumn:
(1) on 12 of September we will have an (online) hearing on the bushy melon (BASF) - we will prepare for media work
(2) on 5 October the 50 anniversary of the EPO will take place. We could contribute with our vegetable, this time being noisy by hammering a cooking pot with a cooking spoon. We will try to arrange for test-session in Munich (slightly changed idea compared to last mail) to see if this can work as picture. Please, if you can reserve that date, we will need around 20 people if we perform this activity. we also may need old cooking pots.
(3) we consider to travel to Berlin to meet the German Ag minister. He voiced concerns about patents granted on plants in the context of the NGT regulation. We could inform him that NGT plants always will go along with patents but he should do something to solve the problem with patents on conventional seeds. Maybe we can manage at end of September. We will try to get some other German organisations on board.
Since our trip to Denmark did not yet materialize, I think we should try to use all three events to push our message. We can also use some several brand new patents granted (all applied before 2017), I will try to give some overview soon. If we go to Berlin, I think we should reserve them for this event.
So let us start a first round of comments via e-mail and Johanna will try to organize a date for another exciting zoom meeting.
cheers
Christoph