Dear all,

I oversaw that tomorrow is a bank holiday in Austria - I will still participate but will have a small child with me, so will do my best to contribute.

As a short update: I just got a confirmation from the president of the Austrian Patent Office (we had asked for a meeting with them to discuss their analysis of the NPOS letter) that the plant patent issue is not on the agenda at all for the Admin Council on June 30th. She expects a first discussion only at the next meeting in October.

Attached is the analysis of the Austrian Patent Office (in German). Please treat confidentially. They share our position that random mutagenesis should not be patentable, but interestingly use a different argument: To be technical, a process must be reproducible. Random mutagenesis does not lead to reproducible results, therefore the process / plants should not be patented.

Best Katherine

Von: Npos_2018 [mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de] Im Auftrag von Johanna Eckhardt no-patents-seeds.org Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2020 11:44 An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de Cc: Katharina Zimmermann katharina.zimmermann@arche-noah.at Betreff: Re: [Npos_2018] Conference call 11 June 2020

Dear all,

below our agenda for tomorrow's conference call (9 -10.30 AM, CET) . As usual let us know if you want to add points to the agenda! Please find the Zoom access info below.

Talk to you tomorrow, Johanna ---

1. Updates

1.1. Updates from the countries / organisations

2. Strategy / Next steps

2.1. EPO level

2.2. national level

3. Other

3.1. Short update on budget, board members, membership applications

3.2. Next conference call

Topic: Conference call No patents on seeds! Time: Jun 11, 2020 09:00 AM Vienna

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81793581608?pwd=cjBMVjBmcVFkY0pCbDZieFpsU0tjZz09

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From: Npos_2018 [mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de] On Behalf Of Johanna Eckhardt no-patents-seeds.org Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 6:58 PM To: npos_2018@testbiotech.demailto:npos_2018@testbiotech.de Cc: Katharina Zimmermann <katharina.zimmermann@arche-noah.atmailto:katharina.zimmermann@arche-noah.at> Subject: [Npos_2018] Conference call 11 June 2020

Dear all,

thanks for filling out the doodle. The most convenient date is on the holiday. Thanks for taking the time. So our next conference call will be on Thursday, 11 June 9:00-10.30 am CET.

Please find the access details for Zoom below.

Best, Johanna ------

Topic: Conference call No patents on seeds! Time: Jun 11, 2020 09:00 AM Vienna

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81793581608?pwd=cjBMVjBmcVFkY0pCbDZieFpsU0tjZz09

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From: Npos_2018 [mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de] On Behalf Of Johanna Eckhardt no-patents-seeds.org Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:21 PM To: npos_2018@testbiotech.demailto:npos_2018@testbiotech.de Subject: [Npos_2018] Conference call

Dear all,

detailed minutes of today's conference call will follow.

In short: The Board of the Administrative Council meets on 28 May (to prepare the meeting of the AC on 30 June). So we agreed to finalise our letter asap and send it to the Board of the Administrative Council tomorrow.

We want to have another conference call in 2 weeks. Could you please fill out the doodle until this Thursday (28 May) / 1 pm so that we can fix a date Thursday afternoon? https://doodle.com/poll/2r3tuuy6si3byn6y (11 June = holiday in some countries)

Best, Johanna

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