Dear all,

here is the info for our next conference calls. Please find the agenda and updated calendar below.

German call: Tuesday, 21 May, 10h-11.30h CET

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88226232219?pwd=RjVFOEFiYmRrUUR5UDVMSFhLSSthQT09

Meeting ID: 882 2623 2219

Passcode: 967239

English call: 22 May, 11h-12.30h CET.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87175193475?pwd=Vjh1SWtOMzJEd0NvM2xrdnYrYkswZz09

Meeting ID: 871 7519 3475

Passcode: 060420

Kind regards,

Johanna

AGENDA:

1. Updates

§ Welcome to new intern Linda Koó

1.1. from countries / member organisations

1.2. NPOS

§ IFOAM, European Organic congress Budapest

- participation in panel: "Patents and NGT deregulation: What's at stake for the European breeding sector?” https://www.europeanorganiccongress.bio/

- in the frame of HU presidency

2. Patent cases

§ Update patent research & report

§ Pinto research

§ Legal analysis of patents granted that were filed after 1 July 2017

2.1. Salad patent Rijk Zwaan

§ https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/patent-cases/lettuce-hot-climate

§ complaint filed

2.2. new KWS patent

§ EP 3447 134, “INCREASED FUNGAL RESISTANCE IN CROP PLANTS”

§ We will file an opposition.

§ https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP17187309

3. Other

3.1. Next conference call

CALENDAR

09.06.2024	European elections	EU
27./28.6.2024	Administrative Council	EPO	Munich/hybrid
11.07.2024	Deadline opposition KWS patent EP3447134 "INCREASED FUNGAL RESISTANCE IN CROP PLANTS"	EPO	https://register.epo.org/application?number=EP17187309
July-December	HU Presidency, event in HU?	EU/HU
?	before EU trilogue on PRM (autumn?) ask people to send emails to MEPs? (change campaign activity)	EU
August-September	mid-August - beginning of Sept. film video with Grietje	NL	clover in the maize fields blooms at the beginning of September
10.-12.9.2024	IFOAM, European Organic congress Budapest participation panel Johanna: "Patents and NGT deregulation: What's at stake for the European breeding sector?” on 11 September 2024, between 11:45 - 12:30.	HU	https://www.europeanorganiccongress.bio/
autumn 2024	AT elections national council (Nationalrat)	AT
October 2024	Let's liberate diversity forum in Nice, France
10.10.2024	Administrative Council	EPO	Munich/hybrid
15.10.2024	Hearing KWS cold resistant maize	EPO	online https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/maize-cold-resistance
29.10.2024	Hearing Monsanto Soybean	EPO	in Munich, Haar https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/patent-cases/soybean
Sept.	present NPOS report
Nov./Dec.	Workshop for new EU Parliament? & infos to new COM?
14.11.2024	EPO Committee on Patent Law	EPO	Munich/hybrid
10./11.12.2024	Administrative Council	EPO	Munich/hybrid
25.03.2025	Hearing Carlsberg Patent EP2575433 complaint

Mag. Johanna ECKHARDT

Project Coordination

Tel. +43 680 21 26 343

johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org

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