__NOTOC__ Kurt Haertel (26 September 1910,

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''Straßenneubenennung Kurt-Haertel-Passage''.
Consulted on January 28, 2007.) was a German

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. He played a leading role in the establishment of the

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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 ''

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'' (German Patent and Trade Mark Office) from 1963 to 1975. In October 1977, he was elected Honorary Chairman of the

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. Since 2003, a street in

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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

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* ''Die Rückgliederung des Saarlandes auf dem Gebiet des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes, des Wettbewerbsrechts und des Urheberrechts'', GRUR 1957, 98 (with

Albrecht Krieger Dr. jur. h. c. Albrecht Krieger (died 2 October 2007 in Berlin, Germany Hans Peter Kunz-Hallstein, ''Zum Gedenken, Albrecht Krieger'', GRUR 2008, Volume 5, 369) was a German civil servant. He was Chairman of the Administrative Council of the Eur ...

) * ''The New European Patent System, Its Present Situation and Significance'', (Dec. 1978) I.I.C., Vol. 19, No.6

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''Kurt-Haertel-Institut für geistiges Eigentum an der FernUniversität in Hagen''
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: 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

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