LEGAL NOTICE

Grünecker, Kinkeldey, Stockmair & Schwanhäusser, Leopoldstr. 4, 80802 Munich, Germany, Tel. +49 89 212350, Fax +49 89 220287, Email: info@grunecker.de.

The firm is organized as company constituted under German civil law.

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The German Patent Attorneys are registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office and are members of the Patentanwaltskammer (www.patentanwaltskammer.de). German Patent Attorneys are subject to professional rules laid down in the Patentanwaltsordnung (BGBl. I 1966, 557, BGBl. I 2001, 3656) and in the Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte (Mitt. 1997, 243). They are further members of the Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle and as such subject to its Code of Professional Conduct (see www.ficpi.org).

The European Patent Attorneys are registered at the European Patent Office and members of the European Patent Institute (www.patentepi.com) and are subject to its Code of Professional Conduct (epi-Information 2/2001, 75) and the Regulation on Discipline issued by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation.

The European Trademark Attorneys are registered at the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market. They are subject to the rules laid down in the Council Regulation on the Community Trade Mark.

The German attorneys-at-law are members of the Rechtsanwaltskammer München (www.rechtsanwaltskammer-muenchen.de) unless specified otherwise. They are subject to the Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung, the Berufsordnung der Rechtsanwälte and the Bundes­rechts­anwalts­gebühren­ordnung (jurcom5.juris.de/bundesrecht/BMJ_index.html, www.brak.de). Moreover, the Code of Conduct for Lawyers in the European Community issued by the Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Community (www.ccbe.org) is applicable to all lawyers.

The firm's German turnover tax identification number is DE130494157.

Professional liability insurance: Allianz Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft, Königinstraße 28, 80802 Munich, Germany, with no territorial restriction.

Please contact T. Eickelkamp and U. Blumenröder in our Munich office in case of any question.