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Kurt Haertel (26 September 1910,
Berlin
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– 30 March 2000,
Seefeld am Ammersee[ Munich's official internet site]
''Straßenneubenennung Kurt-Haertel-Passage''.
Consulted on January 28, 2007.) was a German
patent
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lawyer
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The exact nature of a lawyer's work varies depending on the legal jurisdiction and the legal system, as w ...
.
He played a leading role in the establishment of the
European patent system. He is sometimes referred to as one of the "fathers of the European patent law",
or the "father of European patent law".
[ Web site of the ''Kurt-Haertel-Institut für geistiges Eigentum an der FernUniversität in Hagen'']
Kurt Haertel
. Consulted on January 28, 2007. He was President of the ''
Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (; abbreviation: DPMA) is the German national patent office, with headquarters in Munich, and offices in Berlin and Jena. In 2006 it employed 2556 people, of which about 700 were patent examiners.
Funct ...
'' (German Patent and Trade Mark Office) from 1963 to 1975.
In October 1977, he was elected Honorary Chairman of the
Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation.
Since 2003, a street in
Munich
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, Germany, is named after him, the "''Kurt-Haertel-Passage''".
This is the connecting path from the ''Grasserstraße'' to the ''Bayerstraße''
near the buildings of the
European Patent Office
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Publications
* ''Die Rückgliederung des Saarlandes auf dem Gebiet des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes, des Wettbewerbsrechts und des Urheberrechts'', GRUR 1957, 98 (with Albrecht Krieger)
* ''The New European Patent System, Its Present Situation and Significance'', (Dec. 1978) I.I.C., Vol. 19, No.6
See also
* Romuald Singer
* Dieter Stauder
* Johannes Bob van Benthem
Johannes Bob van Benthem (5 January 1921 in Buitenzorg – 11 September 2006 in The Hague) was a Dutch lawyer. He was the first president of the European Patent Office (EPO), from 1977 to 1985.
He obtained a Doctorate in Dutch Law from the Univ ...
References
External links
*
''Kurt-Haertel-Institut für geistiges Eigentum an der FernUniversität in Hagen''
( English: Kurt Haertel Institute of Hagen University)
* IP Hall of Fame, . Archived on archive.org.
1910 births
2000 deaths
20th-century German lawyers
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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