Dear all,

in case your are waiting for it, just a short update:

It looks like the Austrian Patent Office on a technical level more or less agrees with all our points made.

There are some discussions whether the document as prepared by the President of the EPO is clear contradiction to G1/08 or just a strange interpretation.

This only was a technical discussion, promising, but without huge dynamics. No real outcome (but we can feel encouraged).

we still do not know if Austria will become active. But they now are heading to sort it out. Maybe Arche can manage to approach the government in parallel.

I think we should take further steps in parallel

- come back to the EPO with the request for another meeting

- approach other member states, maybe also write another letter to German government

- prepare for activity at the Melon hearing and maybe additionally at the next meeting of the Admin Council.

we can discuss next week.

cheers

Christoph