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Legal Notes
Information according to § 5 TMG:
The legal designations of the professions "Patentanwalt" (Patent Attorney), "Rechtsanwalt" (Lawyer) and "Zugelassener Vertreter vor dem Europäischen Patentamt" (European Patent Attorney, Professional Representative before the European Patent Office) are applicable in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1. Contact Details
Augustenstrasse 46, 80333 München, Germany / Phone 
0049 89 1786360
Facsimile 0049 89 1784033, Email info@diehl-patent.de
2. Professional Associations
Our German Patent Attorneys are members of the Chamber of German Patent Attorneys and registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office. Our German Lawyers are members of the Chamber of Lawyers for the area of the Oberlandesgericht München (Higher Regional Court of Munich) and admitted at the Amtsgericht (Local Court) and Landgericht München I (Regional Court I). Patentanwaltskammer (Chamber of Patent Attorneys) Tal 29 / 80331 München, Germany / Phone 0049 89 242278-0 Facsimile 0049 89 242278-24 / http://www.patentanwalt.de epi Institut der beim Europäischen Patentamt zugelassenen Vertreter (Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office) Tal 29 / 80331 München, Germany / Phone 0049 89 2017080 Facsimile 0049 89 2021548 / http://www.patentepi.com Rechtsanwaltskammer München (Munich Chamber of Lawyers) Tal 33 / 80331 München, Germany / Phone 0049 89 532944-0 Facsimile 0049 89 53294428 / http://rechtsanwaltskammer-muenchen.de
3. Rules of Professional Conduct
a. German Patent Attorneys are bound by the following professional rules:
- Patentanwaltsordnung (Patent Attorneys Act) of September 7, 1966 (Bundesgesetzblatt I (Official Federal Law Gazette), p. 3082), amended by law of October 25, 1994 (Bundesgesetzblatt I, g. 3565)
- Berufsordnung für Patentanwälte (Professional Rules for Patent Attorneys) of April 27, 1997 (Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte 1997 (Information Bulletin of the German Patent Attorneys), pp. 243 et seq.)
- FICPI Code of Professional Conduct http://www.ficpi.org
b. European Patent Attorneys are bound by the following professional rules:
- Professional Conduct Rules of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi), (epi information 2/2001, p. 75 or http://www.patentepi.com/deutsch/100/120)
- Rules on Disciplinary Matters concerning Professional Representatives (http://www.patentepi.com/deutsch/100/120/123)
c. German Lawyers are bound by the following professional rules (all to be found on the website of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers under http://www.brak.de):
- Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (BRAO) (Federal Regulations concerning Lawyers)
- Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte (BORA) (Professional Rules for Lawyers)
- Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz (RVG)
- Rules of Professional Conduct of Lawyers in the European Union (CCBE Professional Rules) for international legal relationships
4. Our VAT Registration Number is DE 256449166.
5. Legal Form and Authorized Representative
The legal form is a Partnership under the German Civil Code. The authorized representative of Diehl & Partner GbR is patent attorney Dr. Frank Schorr. Dr. Schorr's contact details are mentioned unter item 1.
6. Professional Indemnity
Professional indemnity is assured with Allianz Versicherungs-AG, Königinstraße 28, 80802 München.
Under the terms of § 2 Abs. 1 Nr. 11 DL-InfoV the scope of the insurance covers the contracting
states of the European Union.