The letter to Christian Archambeau, the Executive Director of EUIPO, garnered eighty-four signatures and got sent out today by Priority Mail Express. You can see a PDF scan of the letter here and you can track the courier package here. The letter got delivered on April 24, 2020. Here is the “ask”:
We write to you as design practitioners and applicants for protection of industrial designs. Many of the undersigned are members of the Industrial Designs Listserv, a community of design practitioners.
We are writing to request that the European Union Intellectual Property Office become a participating office in the WIPO Digital Access Service (DAS).
We thank you for your consideration of this request.
Well done and thank you for undertaking this initiative. All we can do now is live in hope that we will obtain a positive outcome.