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The following is information required by § 5 of the German Law on Telemedia (TMG). Responsible provider under the TMG are the patent attorneys and attorneys at law of Ruschke Madgwick Seide & Kollegen.
Our primary place of business is
Rosenkavalierplatz 4
D-81925 München
phone: +49-89 982 952-28
fax: +49-89-982-952-16
VAT No. DE 183 666 832
Please note: Ruschke Madgwick Seide & Kollegen is a civil law partnership under German law and is represented, inter alia, by Hans E. Ruschke, European Patent Attorney.
Unless otherwise specified, the terms “Patentanwalt” or “Patent Attorney” on this website refer to German Patent Attorneys. Ruschke Madgwick Seide & Kollegen German Patent Attorneys are registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office and are members of the German Patent Attorneys Association (www.patentanwalt.de). The firm’s British Patent Attorneys are members of the British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (www.cipa.org.uk).
The following codes of professional conduct apply:
For the European Patent Attorneys:
• the Code of Professional Conduct (www.patentepi.com)
• the Regulation on Discipline issued by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (www.patentepi.com)
For the German Patent Attorneys:
• the professional rules laid down in the Patentanwaltsordnung (PatanwO) German Patent Attorney Code (http://bundesrecht.juris.de/patanwo/index.html)
• the Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte (BOPA, Code of Conduct for Patent Attorneys)
For the British Patent Attorneys:
• the Rules of Professional Conduct (www.cipa.org.uk)
• the Guidelines on the Observance of the Rules of Conduct issued by the Council of the Chartered Institute (www.cipa.org.uk/pages/Conduct_discipline)
For the German Attorneys at Law:
• Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (BRAO, German Attorney at Law Code),
• Berufsordnung der Rechtsanwälte (BORA, Code of Conduct for German attorneys at law),
• Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz (RVG, Law on fees for attorneys at law).
(these rules and laws can be reviewed (in German) at (www.brak.de) under “Informationspflichten gemäß § 5 TMG”)
The Code of Conduct for Lawyers in the European Community issued by the CCBE (Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Community) (www.ccbe.eu)