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Information as required by § 6 of the German Law on Teleservices. (Teledienstgesetz - TDG):

mbp@mueller-bore.de

Müller-Boré & Partner is registered as a partnership in Germany.
Partnership register: Local Court of Munich Register no. PR 56

In the Partnership register registered Partners

• Patentanwalt Andreas Rutetzki
• Patentanwalt Dr. Ralf Perrey
• Patentanwalt Dr. Daniele Schiuma
• Patentanwalt Dr. Joachim Hock
• Patentanwalt Dr. Carsten Rocke

USt-Identifikationsnummer DE811262789

The patent attorneys of Müller-Boré & Partner are members of the German Chamber of Patent Attorneys.

• Patentanwaltskammer
• Tal 29
• 80331 München
• Telefon 089/24 22 78 0
• Telefax 089/ 24 22 78 24
• Internet: www.patentanwaltskammer.de

Our attorneys’ professional title "Patentanwalt" [patent attorney] was conferred in the Federal Republic of Germany. The German patent attorneys of Müller-Boré & Partner are registered at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.

Müller-Boré & Partner’s patent attorneys are subject to the following professional rules:

• Patentanwaltsordnung (PatanwO) [German Patent Attorney Code], last amended by BGBI. I 2001, page 3656, available under http://bundesrecht.juris.de/patanwo/index.html;
• Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte (BOPA) [Code of Conduct for Patent Attorneys] - issued by the German patent attorneys 1997, page 243.

The European patent attorneys of Müller-Boré & Partner are registered at the European Patent Office and are members of the Institute of Professional Representatives at the European Patent Office.

Institute of Professional Representatives admitted to practice at the European Patent Office (EPI):

• Tal 29
• 80331 München
• Telefon 089/201 70 80
• Telefax 089/202 15 48

info@patentepi.com

Internet: www.patentepi.com

The European patent attorneys of Müller-Boré & Partner are subject to the following professional rules:

• Conduct guide lines of the Institute of Professional Representatives admitted to practice at the European Patent Office; can be reviewed under http://www.patentepi.com/;
• Rules of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Office concerning disciplinary matters; can be reviewed under http://www.patentepi.com/;
• Code of Professional Conduct of the International Federation of Patent Attorneys; can be reviewed at http://www.ficpi.org/.

The attorneys at law of Müller-Boré & Partner are members of the Bar Association for the Higher Regional Court in Munich.

• Rechtsanwaltskammer für den Oberlandesgerichtsbezirk München,
• Landwehrstraße 61
• 80336 München
• Telefon 089/53 29 44-0
• Telefax 089/53 29 44-28

rak.muenchen@datevnet.de

Internet: www.rechtsanwaltskammer-muenchen.de

Our attorneys' professional title "Rechtsanwalt" [attorney at law] was conferred in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The attorneys at law of Müller-Boré & Partner are subject to the Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (BRAO) [German Attorney at Law Code] and the Bundesrechtsanwaltsgebührenordnung (BRAGO) [Federal Code of Lawyers’ Fees].

In matters concerning international legal relations, Müller-Boré & Partner’s attorneys at law are further subject to the Professional Code of Conduct for Attorneys at Law in the European Community (CCBE) and the Act on the Activities of European Attorneys in Germany (EuRAG). You will find the current versions of these regulations under http://www.brak.de/ under "Angaben gemäß §6 TDG".

• Zurich Versicherung AG
• Wörringerstraße 11-13
• 50657 Köln

The geographical scope of our professional indemnity for our patent attorneys and attorneys at law in the field of intellectually property law: worldwide

The geographical scope of our professional indemnity for our attorneys at law in a field of law other than intellectually property law: whole region of the European Union and states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area