... we mentioned this and 2 other Carlsberg patent applications in the report 2020 (see extract below) and in a press release from April 2020: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/news/carlsberg2020

You can find a summary of all beer patents here: https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/patent-cases/beer

And the homepage of our beer campaign is still online, in case it is useful for inspiration for the next campaign: http://www.no-patents-on-beer.org/en/

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REPORT 2020

7.4 Further patents on beer

The company Carlsberg, one of the largest breweries in the world, was heavily criticised in public for three ‘patents on beer’ that were granted in 2016 and 2017 (EP2384110, EP2373154 and EP2575433). Oppositions were filed against these patents, involving around 40 organisations.31 While no final decisions have been taken on these patents, the company has once again used well known processes of random mutagenesis to turn seeds, plants and resulting food and beverages into an ‘invention’. Our research discovered three further patent applications filed in 2019 (WO2019129736, WO2019129739, WO2019134962). What is the ‘invention’? Seeds

from barley plants were brought into contact with chemicals (EMS) after which further selection was

carried out for desired characteristics, such as changes in starch composition. Even though there is nothing new or technical in this process, the company is claiming the resulting seeds, plants, harvest, food and beverages as its invention.

This example again shows how the legal loopholes in the June 2017 Administrative Council decision can be exploited because random mutations are now considered to be patentable inventions. It opens up the way for big corporations to gain monopoly rights over our daily food from field to fork, from barley to beer, without ever having invented anything.

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Johanna ECKHARDT

Project Coordination

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-----Original Message----- From: Npos_2018 [mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de] On Behalf Of Christoph Then Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 3:45 PM To: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Subject: [Npos_2018] interesting patent application on Barley (Carlsberg)

Dear all

tomorrow (as today), at our zoom conference, as part of our strategy, we also could discuss some patent applications we could try to use to tell our story and explain our concerns.

in this context I would like to introduce this patent application. Maybe you want to read in advance.

Cheers

Christoph