Kurt Haertel

Kurt Werner Haertel (born September 26, 1910 in Berlin ; † March 30, 2000 in Seefeld am Ammersee ) was a lawyer and President of the German Patent Office from 1963 to 1975 .

Career

Haertel began in 1948 in the legal office of the United Economic Area as head of the “Intellectual Property Law” department and played a key role in the development of commercial legal protection in Germany. From 1963 to 1975 he was President of the German Patent Office in Munich and is considered the "father of European patent law ". Among other things, the Kurt Haertel Institute for Intellectual Property at the FernUniversität Hagen is named after him. His estate was donated to the Center for Applied Law (ZAR) at the University of Karlsruhe .

Publications

Munich Community Commentary on the EPC , ed. with Friedrich Karl Beier and Gerhard Schricker (in delivery), from 1983, Cologne among others: Carl Heymanns Verlag
The reorganization of the Saarland in the field of industrial property protection, competition law and copyright law , GRUR 1957, 98 (with Albrecht Krieger )
The new European patent system, its current status and its importance , GRUR Int 1978, 423, search in English in IIC , Vol. 19, No. 6 (1978)
The harmonizing effect of European patent law , GRUR Int. 1981, 479
The 1985 Luxembourg Conference on the Community Patent and its main results , GRUR Int. 1986, 293

Awards

European Patent Office , Kurt-Haertel-Passage

Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1977)
Large Silver Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1977)
Bavarian Order of Merit (May 30, 1973)
Large Federal Cross of Merit (1971)
Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the Technical University of Munich (September 29, 2000)
Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva

literature

Albrecht Krieger: Kurt Haertel: A life for the protection of intellectual property . In: Intellectual Property and Copyright Law, International Section . tape 39 , no. 9 , 1990, pp. 654-662 .
Martin Otto: Kurt Werner Haertel (1910-2000) . In: Simon Apel / Louis Pahlow / Matthias Wiessner (eds.), Biographical Handbook of Intellectual Property. Mohr Siebeck , Tübingen 2017, pp. 130–132. ISBN 978-3-16-154999-1

Web links

Literature by and about Kurt Haertel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Kurt Haertel Institute: Dr iur. hc Kurt Haertel , Hagen ( Memento from January 6, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
↑ München.de: Renaming of the street Kurt-Haertel-Passage (as of March 2007)
↑ ZAR of the Univ. Karlsruhe: Activity report 1999-2004 , Karlsruhe, December 2004 ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
↑ Technical University of Munich: Communications from TUM, issue 1 (00/01)

personal data
SURNAME	Haertel, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Haertel, Kurt Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and patent attorney
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 2000
Place of death	Seefeld am Ammersee

[Hagen-1] Kurt Haertel Institute: Dr iur. hc Kurt Haertel , Hagen ( Memento from January 6, 2003 in the Internet Archive )

[straße-2] München.de: Renaming of the street Kurt-Haertel-Passage (as of March 2007)

[ZAR-3] ZAR of the Univ. Karlsruhe: Activity report 1999-2004 , Karlsruhe, December 2004 ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

[4] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

[TUM-5] Technical University of Munich: Communications from TUM, issue 1 (00/01)