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KAUFMANN Patent and Trademark Attorneys Loschwitzer Strasse 42 01309 Dresden-Germany

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In Europe, requirements for practising as patent attorney before national patent offices should be distinguished from those needed for practising before the European Patent Office (EPO) or the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO). On the national level, the requirements are not harmonized, although across the 28 Member States of the European Union respective professional qualifications are mutually recognised to some degree.

In Germany, only Patentanwälte/patent attorneys (or Rechtsanwälte/attorneys-at-Law, who are per se entitled to represent clients in all fields of law) are entitled to represent clients from abroad before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA). German patent attorneys have done their University Degrees in Engineering or Natural Sciences and practised in industry before being accepted for an additional three years' education, i. e. completing legal training of two years with an established German patent attorney, at the same time studies of German Law and afterwards a training in intellectual property and an examination at the DPMA.



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