Kurt Haertel
Kurt Haertel (26 September 1910, Berlin – 30 March 2000, Seefeld am Ammersee<ref name="München">Template:In lang Munich's official internet site, Straßenneubenennung Kurt-Haertel-Passage. Consulted on January 28, 2007.</ref>) was a German patent lawyer.<ref name="München"/> He played a leading role in the establishment of the European patent system.<ref>IP Hall of Fame 2006, {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}.</ref> He is sometimes referred to as one of the "fathers of the European patent law",<ref name="München"/> or the "father of European patent law".<ref name="Hagen">Template:In lang Web site of the Kurt-Haertel-Institut für geistiges Eigentum an der FernUniversität in Hagen, Kurt Haertel Template:Webarchive. Consulted on January 28, 2007.</ref> He was President of the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (German Patent and Trade Mark Office) from 1963 to 1975.<ref name="München"/> In October 1977, he was elected Honorary Chairman of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation.<ref>Official Journal of the European Patent Office (OJ EPO) 1/1978, Report on the inaugural meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (19–21 October 1977), p. 5.</ref>
Since 2003, a street in Munich, Germany, is named after him, the "Kurt-Haertel-Passage".<ref name="München"/> This is the connecting path from the Grasserstraße to the Bayerstraße<ref name="München"/> near the buildings of the European Patent Office.<ref>www.geoinfo-muenchen.de</ref>
PublicationsEdit
- 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
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- Template:In lang Kurt-Haertel-Institut für geistiges Eigentum an der FernUniversität in Hagen (English: Kurt Haertel Institute of Hagen University)
- IP Hall of Fame, Template:Webarchive. Archived on archive.org.
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