Dear all
in her response to our letter from August, the German Minister for Justice now replies that she managed to get our issues on the agenda of the patent law committee as well as on EU Patent Law working group. Both will deal with our requests this autumn.
In addition, next year a conference is announced from the Ministry in which we might contribute.
very nice, very good. Please see attached (in German). Please do not distribute at this stage.
furthermore, the EPO will hold its hearing on the melone as announced despite Bayer (Monsanto) and BASF (Nunhems) have withdrawn their request for a public hearing. This will give us the opportunity to explain our findings directly to the Board. It looks like the companies so far also missed to explain their answers to the question of the Board. Good fun.
Today, Johanna sent out the first set of letters to Experts of Member States. Please help us to it done in your country. We are making progress.
Cheers
Christoph