First of all, sorry for the empty email I just sent, I have no idea why that happened.

We very much agree it is a big opportunity for communications work.

We are still convinced, that the picture proposed by Christoph will not work well for (our) media and have trouble finding the message in it - but we do not have a “veto” or a problem with it, we simply think it is far from ideal for the purpose intended. But this is something that can also be proven wrong ;)

From our perspective, we do not need to agree to all activities, if there are no clear objections – it’s sad if our decision making process means that if there is no agreement, there is no action at all. Less than ideal actions are still better than no actions most of the time.

We also have identified this as a big opportunity, that we really do not want to miss it in Austria for broader Social Media and press work.

So from our side, we can offer:

- If the activity in Munich is going forward, Julia from our team can still come from Salzburg and join/support. We would not need to provide more feedback to the design and not make things more complicated. Just let us know if you need support.

- Regardless of the activity in Munich, we plan to use some ARCHE NOAH budget to make a picture with a cake in Vienna, as proposed by Axel. We would only use it in Austria, but are happy to provide to NPOS, in case anyone else wants to use it, e.g. only for Social Media, in addition to any NPOS pictures that might be proposed. It would also be possible to send several different pictures to media and let them choose.

Best,
Dagmar

Von: Npos_2018 <npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de> Im Auftrag von Christoph Then
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. September 2023 15:13
An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de
Betreff: Re: [Npos_2018] REMINDER Activity 50th anniversary EPO - Feedback needed until 13 September

Dear all

it looks like Axel is the only one who is interested in the activity (thanks for the proposal!)

I would not agree with the suggested activity, because I can not imagine German media (or international media) to pick it up.

Since there is also no support for my scenario and no better proposal came up, I think we have to drop it.

This is might be regrettable, since we do not have many other opportunities to go public.

cheers,

Christoph

Am 13.09.23 um 11:43 schrieb axel.grunt@arche-noah.at:

Dear all,

I would love to see a picture that focusses on '50y EPA' and something like 'failure'.

can be really small, like a smashed birthday cake with black candles and a little banner right on top. Or we can put the message (something like 'European Patent Office - 50 years of failure' on the hammer that smashes the cake).

Dont't judge too hard, this is only a very rough idea, but I like the taste of it)

best

axel

Von: Npos_2018 <npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de> Im Auftrag von Johanna Eckhardt
Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. September 2023 16:41
An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de
Betreff: [Npos_2018] REMINDER Activity 50th anniversary EPO - Feedback needed until 13 September

Dear all,

this is a brief reminder to send us your thoughts about the activity for the EPO 50^th anniversary until tomorrow.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

Johanna

Mag. Johanna ECKHARDT

Project Coordination

Tel. +43 680 21 26 343

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

NO PATENTS ON SEEDS!

www.no-patents-on-seeds.org

www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds

www.twitter.com/nopatentsonseed

Von: Npos_2018 <npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de> Im Auftrag von Johanna Eckhardt
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. September 2023 16:04
An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de
Betreff: [Npos_2018] Activity 50th anniversary EPO - Feedback needed until 13 September

Dear all,

to be able to take a decision about the planned activities on 5^th October in front of the EPO, we ask you for your feedback until Wednesday, 13 September.

The idea proposed by Christoph: organise a protest / confrontational activity with our vegetables and pots and spoons. We’ll need around 20 people.

Plus, Christoph will draft a backgrounder with new patents.

Do you agree with the idea of the vegetables and the pots or not?
Do you have a better concrete idea for a protest picture?
Would you be able to join in Munich? (joining so far: Gabi from Biorespect, Julia from ARCHE NOAH, Johanna, Tommy).
If we are not convinced about the activity, we could as well drop it altogether and just prepare a press release. But I think that we should take the opportunity to organise something.

Until now we only have feedback from ARCHE NOAH who are not convinced about using the vegetables again (see emails from Axel).

Looking forward to hear what you think.

Kind regards,

Johanna

Mag. Johanna ECKHARDT

Project Coordination

Tel. +43 680 21 26 343

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

NO PATENTS ON SEEDS!

www.no-patents-on-seeds.org

www.facebook.com/nopatentsonseeds

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