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The European Patent Attorneys of Lorenz & Kollegen are members of the European Patent Institute (epi, http://www.patentepi.com) and as such subject to its Code of Professional Conduct and the Regulation on Discipline issued by the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation.

Unless otherwise specified, the terms "Patentanwalt" or "Patent Attorney" on this website refer to German Patent Attorneys. Lorenz & Kollegen’s German Patent Attorneys are registered at the German Patent and Trademark Office and members of the German Patent Attorneys Association (http://www.patentanwalt.de).

German Patent Attorneys are subject to the professional rules laid down in the Patentanwaltsordnung (PatanwO) German Patent Attorney Code and in the Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte BOPA Code of Conduct for Patent Attorneys.

German Patent Attorneys are obliged by the Federal Patent Attorneys’ Act (PAO) to maintain a liability insurance with a minimum insurance sum of € 250.000,--. Further details are laid down in § 45 PAO. The German Patent Attorneys Dr. Werner Lorenz, Sven Frey, Klaus P. Raunecker, Markus A. Lorenz and Wolfgang Schmid are liability insured by the R+V Allgemeine Versicherung Aktiengesellschaft, Taunusstraße 1, 65193 Wiesbaden.

Lorenz & Kollegen's German attorneys at law at are members of the Bar Association in the district of the Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart (http://www.rak-Stuttgart.de), Germany, unless specified otherwise. They are subject to the Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (BRAO) German Attorney at Law Code, the Berufsordnung der Rechtsanwälte (BORA) Code of Conduct for German attorneys at law and the Bundesrechtsanwaltsgebührenordnung (BRAGO) Federal Code of Lawyers' Fees. These German rules and laws can be reviewed (in German) at http://www.brak.de under "Angaben gemäß § 6 TDG".

Lawyers are obliged by the Federal Lawyers’ Act (BRAO) to maintain a liability insurance with a minimum insurance sum of € 250.000,--. Further details are laid down in § 51 BRAO. The lawyers Elke and Dr. Jürgen Strauß are liability insured by the Allianz Versi-cherungs-Aktiengesellschaft, Großer Burstah 3, 20457 Hamburg. Furthermore, they are operating in the joint office of the Partnerschaftsgesellschaft Lorenz & Kollegen.

Moreover, 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) is applicable to all lawyers of Lorenz & Kollegen.