Dear all

on 19 November, Arche Noah will hold a workshop in Brussels on patents and allows me to present some findings on CRISPR patents and conventional breeding and to put it in context to recent debates.

please see attached my draft presentation - happy to receive your comments.

The idea:

* to explain the different legal frameworks of GMO regulation and patent law

* to explain the consequences for patents on conventional breeding if no difference is made between New GE and random mutations.

* to derive to a demand which could solve the problem.

For me it seems to be important to use the workshop to explain some arguments which I think are (in essence) not really controversial but crucial for our upcoming work in the EU. So thanks to Arche Noah for organising.

Cheers

Christoph