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<P><BIG>I want to make sure you didn’t miss this.<STRONG> This Monday our
partners will dress up as screaming vegetables in Munich to protest outside of
the European Patent Office, right before their official
meeting.</STRONG></BIG></P>
<P><BIG><STRONG>They will be delivering our demand to stop companies from
undoing our win</STRONG>. Companies like Bayer-Monsanto and Carlsberg are
currently using legal loopholes in patent law to register new patents on our
fruits, vegetables, and seeds (like barley or melons).</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><STRONG>144,491 have already signed</STRONG> from the WeMove Europe
community and others like ours. [1] <STRONG>But we want to get to 200,000 for
the protest on Monday.</STRONG></BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Will you add your name? We’ll update ASAP you on our protest!</BIG></P>
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<P><BIG>Free the seeds! Save the future of our food.</BIG></P>
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<P><EM>Our partners "No Patents on Seeds" recently protested in front of the
German Ministry of Justice<BR>and will soon bring their screaming vegetables in
protest in front of the EPO’s office in Munich right before their important
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<P><SMALL>[1] Partners include No Patents on Seeds and Umweltinstitut Munchen
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<P><BIG>In case you missed it, the original email is below the
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"><BIG><B>Together we got the European
Patent Office </B>(EPO) <B>to stop patents on all plant seeds </B>so that
they belong to all of us and cannot be owned for profit. But corporations
found a loophole that would cancel our win. <B>The EPO meets next week,
act now to ask them to scrap this loophole.</B></BIG></SPAN></P>
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<P><BIG>Hi,</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>No one should be able to own the exclusive right to grow and sell
fruits and vegetables. </B>It sounds obvious but this is what we fought to
prevent for over four years. And we won. Last year, <B>the European Patent
Office (EPO) officially accepted that conventionally bred plants are not
patentable. </B>[1]</BIG></P>
<P><BIG>But <B>companies like Bayer-Monsanto, DowDupont, Heineken and Carlsberg
have found ways to undo that win </B>by finding legal loopholes to register new
patents on melons or barley. [2]</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>What they are doing is pretty sneaky:</B> it’s called ‘technical
topping’ and it’s a way to exploit the loopholes introduced by the EPO. [3]
While patents on conventionally bred plants are prohibited, patents on breeding
by means of genetic engineering, including new methods such as genome editing
can be patented. [4] </BIG></P>
<P><BIG>Now companies can try to blur the distinction between conventional
breeding and genetic engineering. In practice, this means that seeds to make
beer or melons can still be claimed as an invention.</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>We already got the EPO to listen to us </B>through a huge petition,
filing thousands of complaints against a patent on tomatoes, and a protest in
Munich at the Oktoberfest beer festival. [5]</BIG></P>
<P><BIG><B>As the EPO meets next week, it’s time to remind them that we’re still
here and we won’t allow them to cancel our win.</B> Right before they meet,<B>
our partners will dress up as screaming vegetables </B>(see photo below) in
front of EPO’s office in Munich <B>and hand over our signatures. </B></BIG></P>
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<P><BIG>Patents create monopolies: fruits, vegetables and seeds claimed in
patents cannot be used by other farmers for further breeding without the
permission of the patent holder. This means that a handful of <B>large
corporations get far-reaching control over our daily food production - they can
decide what we eat, what farmers produce, what retailers sell and how much we
all have to pay for it. </B></BIG></P>
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<P><EM>Our partners "No Patents on Seeds" recently protested in front of the
German Ministry of Justice<BR>and will soon bring their screaming vegetables in
protest in front of the EPO’s office in Munich.</EM></P></CENTER>
<P><BIG>If these patents are not stopped, small farmers will become more and
more dependent on big companies that can control access to seeds for further
breeding. The EPO needs to take action as soon as possible, before the likes of
Bayer-Monsanto and DowDupont own the exclusive rights to fruits, vegetables and
seeds. <B>Let’s make sure the EPO stands strong, and does not allow any more
patents on seeds until they close these loopholes.</B></BIG></P>
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<P><BIG>After more than four years of campaigning to stop patents on seeds, our
efforts put an end to years of complete legal absurdity and chaotic
decision-making at the EPO. Corporations fought tooth and nail, lobbying,
spending a lot of money to beat us, but our people power prevailed. <B>As
corporations try to find loopholes, let’s make sure our voice stays strong,
again. Save the future of food, sign now!</B></BIG></P>
<P><BIG>With hope,<BR>David (London), Giulio (Rome), and the entire WeMove
Europe team</BIG></P>
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<P><SMALL>References<BR>[1]
https:<SPAN>//www.epo</SPAN>.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/communications/2020/20200514.html<BR>https:<SPAN>//www.sdhsprogram</SPAN>.org/european-patent-office-plants-animals-obtained-classical-breeding-not-patentable/<BR>[2]
https:<SPAN>//www.no-patents-on-seeds</SPAN>.org/sites/default/files/news/No%20patents%20on%20seeds%20-%20Overview%202018-2019_1.pdf<BR>https:<SPAN>//www.no-patents-on-seeds</SPAN>.org/en/publications/report2021<BR>[3]
https:<SPAN>//www.no-patents-on-seeds</SPAN>.org/en/news/G3-19<BR>[4]
https:<SPAN>//www.no-patents-on-seeds</SPAN>.org/en/news/report2020<BR>[5]
https:<SPAN>//www.wemove</SPAN>.eu/big-win-patents</SMALL></P>
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