Dear Christoph,
Thanks for the draft, which is very interesting. It is great we can include so much new context - thanks to everyone involved.
Attached are my comments. My main feedback:
- We should do more to underline the consequences of waiting to see what happens with these applications, as the governments currently want to do. Could we add in the numbers of relevant applications from H2 2012, 2018-19 to give a total number of patents
applications that could already slip through the loopholes owing to inaction? And do some extrapolation into the future? Perhaps for the media work we could think about a theme like a ticking time bomb or a trawler fishing up diversity while politicians do
nothing.
- It would be helpful to explain in a bit more detail the new strategy of the companies. I suspect this is more obvious to you than the average reader. Based on our arguments about the legal loopholes, you would logically expect that most applications would
include random mutagenesis, but this is not the case.
- In terms of structure, I would propose to move the analysis of the 2020 applications more to the front (as this is what is new and report-wothy) and move the legal analysis to the end (and potentially shorten it, where we repeat
our demands).
Best,
Katherine
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Npos_2018 [
mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de] Im Auftrag von Johanna Eckhardt no-patents-seeds.org
Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Februar 2021 16:05
An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de
Betreff: [Npos_2018] IMPORTANT first draft of the new report (feedback until 12 February)
Dear all,
as mentioned in today's conference call, could you please come back to us with your feedback on the report until the end of the week (12 February)?
We can then continue with edits and the translation into German.
Thank you!
Best,
Johanna
Johanna ECKHARDT
Project Coordination
Tel. +43 680 21 26 343
NO PATENTS ON SEEDS!
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Sent: Monday, February 8, 2021 9:18 AM
Subject: [Npos_2018] first draft of the new report (docx version)
dear all
please see attached the first draft of the new report.
It uses lots of parts from the previous one. However it follows another
logic: The focus now is on the loopholes, while last time we did not know the outcome of G3/19 and therefore had to take a wider approach.
more recent figures from overall patent applications and pinto will be added.
I especially like figure 3 which repeats what we are saying about the differences between GE and random mutagenesis, and was produced with public money to educate public on advantages of New GE.... I will try to organise a slightly adopted version.
I can give a short introduction in the zoom meeting we have today and tomorrow.
cheers
Christoph