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__NOTOC__ Kurt Haertel (26 September 1910,
Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
– 30 March 2000, Seefeld am Ammersee Munich's official internet site
''Straßenneubenennung Kurt-Haertel-Passage''.
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) was a German
patent A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an sufficiency of disclosure, enabling discl ...
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. 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 Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
, 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 The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation
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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 ...


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''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 {{Germany-law-bio-stub