Legal notices

Details according to § 6 para 1 MDStV/TDG [German Media Agreement and Telecomms Services Act] :

  1. Titles, accreditations, relevant institutes
  2. Contact addresses of the relevant professional organisations
  3. Significant professional legal regulations
  4. Turnover-tax identification number
  5. Responsible in the sense of § 6 MDStV/TDG
     

1. Titles, accreditations, relevant institutes

Job title

  1. Patent Attorney (Federal Republic of Germany)
  2. European Patent Attorney (accredited representative before the European Patent Office EPO)
  3. European Trademark & Design Attorney (accredited representative before the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO))

Accreditations

  1. German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), German Federal Patent Court (BPatG), Proceedings for Revocation before the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH)
  2. European Patent Office (EPO)
  3. European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Relevant Institute(s) and Organisation(s)

  1. Patentanwaltskammer [German Institute of Patent Attorneys]
  2. Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi)
  3. European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
     

2. Contact addresses of the relevant professional organisations

Patentanwaltskammer
Tal 29
D-80331 Munich
Telephone: +49-89-242278-0
Fax: +49-89-242278-24
Email: info@patentanwalt.de

epi
Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office
Tal 29
D-80331 Munich
Telephone: +49-(0)89-201 7080
Fax: +49-(0)89-202 1548
Email: info@patentepi.com

European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
Avenida de Europa, 4
E-03080 Alicante
Telephone: +34 965 139 100
Fax: +34 965 131 344
Email: information@euipo.europa.eu
 

3. Significant professional legal regulations

Professional legal regulations for German patent attorneys:
Patentanwaltsordnung (PAO) [German Patent Attorney Code] dated 7.9.1966 (BGBl. I S. 557), last amended by Act dated 22.12.2006 (BGBl. I S. 3416; BlPMZ 2007, 89) 
Berufsordnung für Patentanwälte [Professional Rules for German Patent Attorneys] dated 21.4.1997 (Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte 1997, 243 to 247).
FICPI Professional code of conduct (www.ficpi.org)
 
Professional legal regulations for European patent attorneys:
Guidelines of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office for the exercise of their profession (OJ EPO1986, 331 ff.)
Regulations in disciplinary matters concerning accredited representatives (OJ EPO 1978, 91 ff.)
 

4. Turnover-tax identification number
DE 236416612
 

5. Responsible in the sense of § 6 MDStV/TDG

Dr. Klaus Hinkelmann
Address for correspondence:
Patentanwaltskanzlei Hinkelmann
Lyonel-Feininger-Str. 28
D-80807 Munich
 
e-mail: info@hinkelmann-ip.com
T +49-89-3074976-0
F +49-89-3074976-22

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