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Hoffmann · Eitle
This website provides information and comments on legal issues and developments of interest in the field of industrial property. Nothing in this website constitutes legal advice. Intellectual property laws and systems are multi-faceted and intricate, and regarding any problem or matter, we urge you to obtain professional advice before taking any action with respect to any information contained in this website. Hoffmann · Eitle assumes no responsibility for information contained on this site and disclaims all liability in respect of such information. This website contains links to other websites and to material contained on other websites. Hoffmann · Eitle is not responsible for the content of such other websites and to the extent permitted by law disclaims all liability in respect of such content and of any other websites or content which you may be able to access from such websites.
The following is information required by § 5 of the German Law on Telemedia (TMG). If you have any questions in this regard, please contact our offices or send an email to pm@hoffmanneitle.com. Responsible provider under the TMG are the patent attorneys and attorneys at law of Hoffmann · Eitle.
Our places of buiness are
in Munich: Arabellastr. 4 D-91925 München phone: +49 (0)89 92409-0 fax: +49 (0)89 91 83 56
VAT No. DE 130 502 536
in London: Sardinia House Sardinia Street 52 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LZ phone: +44 (0)20 7404 0116 fax: +44 (0)20 7404 0218
VAT No. GB 466 384 907
Please note: Hoffmann · Eitle is a civil law partnership under German law and is represented, inter alia, by Christopher Furlong, European Patent Attorney.
The European Patent Attorneys of Hoffmann · Eitle are members of the European Patent Institute (epi, www.patentepi.com). Unless otherwise specified, the terms "Patentanwalt" or "Patent Attorney" on this website refer to German Patent Attorneys. Hoffmann · Eitle's German Patent Attorneys are registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office and are members of the German Patent Attorneys Association (www.patentanwalt.de). The firm's British Patent Attorneys are members of the British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (www.cipa.org.uk). Some of our British Patent Attorneys are also members of the British Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (www.itma.org.uk). Our Dutch Patent Attorney is member of the Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden (www.octrooigemachtigde.nl). Hoffmann · Eitle's German attorneys at law are members of the Bar Association in the district of the Higher Regional Court Munich (www.rechtsanwaltskammer-muenchen.de), Germany, unless specified otherwise.
The following codes of professional conduct apply:
for the European Patent Attorneys:
the Code of Professional Conduct (http://www.patentepi.com)
the Regulation on Discipline issued by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (http://www.patentepi.com)
the FICPI statutes (http://www.ficpi.org)
for the German Patent Attorneys:
the professional rules laid down in the Patentanwaltsordnung (PatanwO) German Patent Attorney Code (http://bundesrecht.juris.de/patanwo/index.html)
the Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte (BOPA, Code of Conduct for Patent Attorneys)
for the British Patent Attorneys:
the Rules of Professional Conduct (www.cipa.org.uk)
the Guidelines on the Observance of the Rules of Conduct issued by the Council of the Chartered Institute (www.cipa.org.uk)
for the British Trade Mark Attorneys:
the Code of Practice issued by the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (code of practice)
for the Dutch Patent Attorneys:
Gedragsregels voor de octrooigemachtigde (http://www.octrooigemachtigde.nl/gedragsregels.html)
for the German Attorneys at Law:
Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (BRAO, German Attorney at Law Code), Berufsordnung der Rechtsanwälte (BORA, Code of Conduct for German attorneys at law), Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz (RVG, Law on fees for attorneys at law). (these rules and laws can be reviewed (in German) at http://www.brak.de/ under "Informationspflichten gemäß § 5 TMG")
the Code of Conduct for Lawyers in the European Community issued by the CCBE (Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Community) (www.ccbe.org)
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