Dear Christoph,
Thanks for the reaction. So that we are coordinated, we will do the same - publish the PA first thing on Friday morning, but also inform some journalists tomorrow that it is coming.
I have made some small changes to our release, e.g. to also refer to Tuesday's meeting.
It's a busy few days for you and Johanna - thank you for your work!
Best Katherine -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Npos_2018 [mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de] Im Auftrag von Christoph Then Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. März 2021 12:00 An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Betreff: Re: [Npos_2018] important! success in the Melon case
dear all,
thanks to Katherine for sending her draft which is well written and fine for me in Austria.
But I would not recommend to take it as joint text just as it is. To me it seems to be pretty long and complex and still would need to be prolonged if we announce the activity on Monday.
please see my shorter draft, which is only announcing small victory and therefore is more way forward to show why further action is needed. I guess we could introduce some more elements from the of Arche Noah. But I would try to keep it less euphoric. and shorter.
on the day for release: I suggest to run it on Friday but before (tomorrow) to give some information to journalists with embargo, so they already have the story on Friday. This also will allow us to inform those organisations which were involved, including Vandana. It also make take some time to agree on key message.
So I will no start to work on German text and wait for your comments on the two drafts (from Katherine and from me). I also will try to inform Vandana and Greenpeace and some others which are not on this list.
Cheers
Christoph
Am 17.03.21 um 10:42 schrieb ARCHE NOAH Katherine Dolan:
Congratulations!
We would propose to put out a press release tomorrow, also announcing the activity on Monday. The strong advice from our press officer Axel is that if we wait the story loses it news value, and a victory against Monsanto is indeed a story. Getting some reporting on the melon victory is also likely to increase media interest in the activity early next week.
We had already prepared a draft release on the melon patent. If it helps things to go quicker, you could use this as a base for a NPOS press release? Arche Noah would then not do a separate press release, just promote it in Austria (but for that we need to be able to put it out at 8am). If possible at such short notice, it would also be great to include a quote from Vandana. I can help with English corrections today, if it means we can get out a press release tomorrow. Friday is not a good day for media releases in Austria.
Thanks Katherine
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Npos_2018 [mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de] Im Auftrag von Christoph Then Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. März 2021 10:31 An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Betreff: [Npos_2018] important! success in the Melon case
please see attached. The patent was revoked due to Art 83. Nice success. No too easy to win against Monsanto. (we only did with support of the EPO)
But not really helpful for other cases. The only lessons learnt is that you have to deposit your seeds at those deposits which are registered under the Budapest treaty.
How to go on?
We could try to run something on Friday, announcing the activity on Monday.
Or we run some communication after the meeting of the Admin Council (this would be nice in case we get some reactions or information what was happening during the meeting - we could try.).
I will start writing a short draft, please send your thoughts.