Legal notice

Legal form: Partnership with limited professional liability (Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB);

Registry Court: Regional Court Zweibrücken (Amtsgericht Zweibrücken), Partnership registry PR 30142

Partners: Dr. Christian Keller, Astrid Schwertfeger, each partner has sole power of representation

The firm's VAT number is DE 275605867.

All patent attorneys working in the partnership are licensed under German law. The firm is organized in a partnership with limited professional liability established under the German Partnerships Act (Partnerschaftsgesellschaftsgesetz – Part mbB). The patent attorneys are members of the German Patent Bar Association, Tal 29, 80331 Munich and the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office, PO Box 26 01 12, 80058 Munich.

The following professional regulations apply:

• PAO
  Patent Attorney Regulations (Patentanwaltsordnung)
  http://www.patentanwaltskammer.de
   
• BOPA
  Professional Code of Conduct for Patent Attorneys (Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte)
  http://www.patentanwaltskammer.de
   
• epi
  Code of Conduct of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the EPO
  http://www.patentepi.com
   
• FICPI
  FICPI Code of Conduct
  http://www.ficpi.org (about FICPI, FICPI Statutes)

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The following information is given in view of the regulations of the German Law on Teleservices.

The firm’s German Patent Attorneys are registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office and are members of the Patentanwaltskammer (www.patentanwaltskammer.de). German Patent Attorneys are subject to professional rules laid down in the Patentanwaltsordnung (BGBl. I 1966, 557, BGBl. I 2001, 3656) and in the Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte (Mitt. 1997, 243). Furthermore, they are members of the Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle and as such subject to its Code of Professional Conduct (see www.ficpi.org).

The firm’s European Patent Attorneys are registered at the European Patent Office and are members of the European Patent Institute (www.patentepi.com) and subject to its Code of Professional Conduct (epi-Information 2/2001, 75) and the Regulation on Discipline issued by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation.

The firm’s European Trademark Attorneys are registered at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). They are subject to the rules laid down in the Council Regulation on the European Union trade mark.

The firm's European Patent Attorneys are registered in the list pursuant to Art. 48(3), last sentence, of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA). www.unified-patent-court.org/en/registry/representation

The liability insurance of the firm is R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG, Raiffeisenstraße 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany, Head Office: Wiesbaden, Commercial register no. HRB 2188, Amtsgericht Wiesbaden.