Dear all,

the detailed programme of the EPO event is now online.

https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/events/50-years-european-patent-convention?mtm_campaign=50yearsEPC&mtm_keyword=epo-newsletter-16&mtm_medium=newsletter&mtm_content=event&mtm_group=email

Ministers from Austria and the Netherlands and the German Chancellor will speak. Maybe we could send them a letter before the event? But I guess this wouldn’t influence what they are saying at the event – since they want to celebrate the EPO and not criticise them.

Maybe we could send an open letter to all the speakers and/or tag them in Twitter posts before the event.

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Opening speeches
António Campinos, President of the European Patent Office
Rumen Radev, President of the Republic of Bulgaria (live from Isar 102 in Munich)
Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany (video message)
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (video message)
Micky Adriaansens, Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of The Netherlands (live from the Auditorium in The Hague)
Alexander Schallenberg, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria (video message)
Josef Kratochvíl, Chairperson of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation and President of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic (live from Isar 102 in Munich)

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of Iceland
Hem Vandy, Minister of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation of Cambodia

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Kind regards,

Johanna

Mag. Johanna ECKHARDT

Project Coordination

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