Kurt Haertel

Kurt Haertel (26 September 1910, Berlin – 30 March 2000, Seefeld am Ammersee^[1]) was a German patent lawyer.^[1] He played a leading role in the establishment of the European patent system.^[2] He is sometimes referred to as one of the "fathers of the European patent law",^[1] or the "father of European patent law".^[3] He was President of the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (German Patent and Trade Mark Office) from 1963 to 1975.^[1] In October 1977, he was elected Honorary Chairman of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation.^[4]

European Patent Office, Kurt-Haertel-Passage, in Munich, Germany

Since 2003, a street in Munich, Germany, is named after him, the "Kurt-Haertel-Passage".^[1] This is the connecting path from the Grasserstraße to the Bayerstraße^[1] near the buildings of the European Patent Office.^[5]

Publications

• 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

See also

• Romuald Singer
• Dieter Stauder
• Johannes Bob van Benthem