Dear Christoph,
Thanks for this, the document looks good to me. I'm afraid we can’t be of much help here: unless it's a Dutch company Oxfam Novib can’t directly reach out to these companies without going through complex alignment procedures with other Oxfam affiliates that are managing (domestic) accounts with these companies (in this case our Danish and German counterparts). We would advise therefore that NPOS proceeds by sending a standard letter/email to the companies explaining our concerns.
Best regards, Nout
-----Original Message----- From: Npos_2018 npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de On Behalf Of Christoph Then Sent: Friday, March 11, 2022 9:50 AM To: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Subject: [Npos_2018] updated backgrounder on new patents on beer /question to Oxfam / please come back with comments till mid of next week
Dear all
please see attached the draft for the updated backgrounder on new patent applications on barley and beer.
It now can be used a self-standing text, it is enriched by footnotes and further explanations, thus it is possible to check all the facts.
Please note that I also added a last sentence to the demands of the petition at the end. This sentence already reflects some of our latest findings about patents on beer.
We already received first comments from the free brewers on our draft media release. So I now will work on the final draft version of the PR and also produce a German translation of the backgrounder.
Please advise: For me it seems not to be necessary to approach the companies Carlsberg, CSIRO and Radeberger.
Carlsberg did not react on last messages, CSIRO might try to stop us by unfair methods and Radeberger was approached by the free brewers, but did not show big interest.
However, if we want beforehand to approach these companies nevertheless, I would kindly ask Oxfam to help us with their contacts. I think Oxfam might prevent the companies from giving unreasoned comments.
If we want to approach them, we could use the final draft version of the backgrounder (after a first round of comments).
Thus everybody, please come with comments on the draft backgrounder till mid of next weeks.
currently we plan to go public after the 20 March.
Cheers
Christoph