<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I am writing to ask permission to link to your data from our website. I have read the appropriate page (<A href="http://www.gramene.org/documentation/linkback.html">http://www.gramene.org/documentation/linkback.html</A>) and just want to make sure that it is OK with you guys.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We are preparing a patent landscape on the rice genome, and want to bring to our audience's attention that synteny between rice and other important food crops can mean that patents granted on species can cover another species. Your graphics on this topic are outstanding, and we would like to make a link from our page to yours.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We would like to make sure you are comfortable with this. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sincerely,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kerry Mills</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Kerry Mills, Ph.D.</DIV><DIV>Scientist and Lab Operations Manager</DIV><DIV>CAMBIA, GPO Box 3200</DIV><DIV>Canberra ACT 2601</DIV><DIV>Australia</DIV><DIV>Tel: +61-2-6246 4548</DIV><DIV>Fax: +61-2-6246 4533</DIV><DIV>Mob: +61-0408-867 533</DIV><DIV>Email: <A href="mailto:k.mills@cambia.org">k.mills@cambia.org</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>www.cambia.org</DIV><DIV>www.bois.net</DIV><DIV>www.patentlens.net</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>