__NOTOC__
Kurt Haertel (26 September 1910,
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
– 30 March 2000,
Seefeld am Ammersee[ Munich's official internet site]
''Straßenneubenennung Kurt-Haertel-Passage''.
Consulted on January 28, 2007.) 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 enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...
lawyer
A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ...
.
He played a leading role in the establishment of the
European patent
The European Patent Convention (EPC), also known as the Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973, is a multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation and providing an autonomous legal system according to w ...
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 (german: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt; 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 abo ...
'' (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
The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the European Patent Office (EPO). The Administrative Council acts as the Organisation's supervisory ...
.
Since 2003, a street in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
, 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 .
www.geoinfo-muenchen.de
/ref>
Publications
* ''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
See also
* Romuald Singer Romuald Singer (November 8, 1920 – August 20, 1991) was director of the international section of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), Strasbourg, and chairman of the Enlarged and the Legal Board of Appeal of th ...
* Dieter Stauder Dieter Stauder (born 1940) is a German attorney-at-law and an expert in intellectual property law. He was Director of the International Section of the Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (french: Centre d'Etudes Internationales de ...
* Johannes Bob van Benthem
Johannes Bob van Benthem (5 January 1921, Buitenzorg – 11 September 2006, The Hague) was a Dutch lawyer. He was the first president of the European Patent Office (EPO), from 1977 to 1985.
Life
He obtained a Doctorate in Dutch Law from the Un ...
References
External links
*
''Kurt-Haertel-Institut für geistiges Eigentum an der FernUniversität in Hagen''
(English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
: 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