DISCLAIMER I TERMS OF BUSINESS I CLIENT SERVICE CHARTER I COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS I LINKING POLICY I IMPRESSUM

This website is owned and operated by Hammonds LLP ("us" and "we"). Your use of this website is subject to the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these conditions, you must not use this website.

The Hammonds Data Protection and Privacy Statement forms part of these Terms and Conditions.

Hammonds LLP and its affiliated undertakings comprise Hammonds LLP, Hammonds Hausmann SELARL and Hammonds, a Hong Kong general partnership, each of which are separate and distinct entities.

Hammonds LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC 335584 and is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales. A list of the members of Hammonds LLP and their professional qualifications is open to inspection at the registered office of Hammonds LLP, 7 Devonshire Square, London EC2M 4YH. Use of the word "Partner" by Hammonds LLP refers to a member of Hammonds LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualification.

Hammonds LLP is registered with HM Revenue & Customs (formerly HM Customs & Excise) for VAT purposes. Hammonds LLP UK VAT number is GB 747 1831 20. The effective date of this registration is 1 August 2000. For clarity please note this VAT number was transferred from the Hammonds Partnership to Hammonds LLP with effect from 1 May 2008.

All communications regarding this website should be addressed to enquiries@hammonds.com

DISCLAIMER

This website may include information relating to the law and legal developments. Such information is based upon the law of England and Wales unless we expressly state that is not the case. Any such information is only intended for general guidance and does not constitute advice. Detailed professional advice should be obtained before taking or refraining from taking action in relation to any such information.

Whilst we have taken every reasonable precaution and care in compiling this website, we do not make any representation or warranties of any kind (express or implied) with respect to the contents or operation of this website, and any such representations and warranties are excluded by this notice. We do not warrant that use of this website will be uninterrupted or error free.

Before May 2008, "Hammonds" was a general partnership constituted under English law. In May 2008 the business of Hammonds in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Spain was transferred to Hammonds LLP. Various documents on this website may have been produced before May 2008 and after then should be read (where the context dictates) as if references to "Hammonds" were references to "Hammonds LLP". Nothing in these documents is to be taken to indicate that the general partnership Hammonds (as opposed to Hammonds LLP) continues business in those jurisdictions.

Your use of this website and the materials contained in it are done so entirely at your own risk. We do not accept any liability for losses or damages, whether direct or indirect, that you may suffer as a result of your use of this website or your reliance upon the contents of this website including but not limited to computer service or system failure, access delays or interruption, data non-delivery or mis-delivery, computer viruses or other harmful components, breaches of security or unauthorised use of the system arising from "hacking" or otherwise.

This website is made available on the basis that (except in respect of fraud or of death or personal injury caused by our negligence), all liability whatsoever for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with your use of this web site, or reliance upon the contents of this web site, is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Any typographical, clerical or other error or omission in any page posted on this website shall be subject to correction or deletion (as appropriate) without any liability on our part.

We reserve the right to make changes to this website at any time without notice and it is your responsibility to revisit this page from time to time to re-read this notice. Any revised terms shall take effect as at the date of its posting.

The content of this website, any dispute arising out of the website, and your relationship with us are governed by English law and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

TERMS Of BUSINESS

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CLIENT SERVICE CHARTER

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COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS

You may download, store and use information contained in or pages from this web site for your own personal use and research or that of your firm or company. You may not republish, retransmit, redistribute or otherwise make such information or pages available to any other party or available on any web site, on-line service or bulletin board of your own or of any other party or make the same available in hard copy or on any other media without our express prior written consent.

Permission is granted only electronically to copy and/or print in hard copy portions of this website for personal non-commercial purposes. Any other use of materials on this website (including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above and modification, distribution or re-publication) is strictly prohibited.

All design, text, graphics, program code and the selection or arrangement of them are the copyright of us or our licensors.

All trade marks, brand names and business names or logos contained on this website are our property or that of their respective owners.

LINKING POLICY

This website may include links to other web sites which may be of interest to you. We do not endorse or approve and have no responsibility for the content of any web site to which this web site links.

No authority is given (implied or expressly) by us or the contributors to the website to deep link to or to frame any of the content that appears on the website or to use a representation of any of the firm's names or logos, trade marks, brand names contained on this website. We reserve the right to prohibit links to our homepage.

IMPRESSUM

Details for the purposes of section 5 of the TMG

(List of Partners)

For the purposes of section 5 of the TMG, this website is offered by Hammonds LLP with the following named partners. The VAT number of section 27 a UstG is DE215195067

Berlin Office:

Jost Arnsperger, Dr. Christian Bleschke, Horst Daniel, Martin H. Falke, Dr. Volker Heidbüchel LL.M., Axel Kunze, Dr. Kai Mertens, Markus Schmucker, Raphael Slowik, Dr. Frank H. Walter-von Gierke, Tanja Weber, Dr. Tim Wünnemann

Address:
Hammonds LLP, Unter den Linden 14, 10117 Berlin
Telephone: 030 - 726168000, Fax: 030 - 726168001
E-Mail: info@hammonds.de

The named partners of Hammonds LLP are registered lawyers in the Federal Republic of Germany and are members of the lawyers' chambers of their respective locations.

Professional Regulation:

The following professional regulations apply:

Lawyers:
BO-Berufsordnung
BRAO-Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung
BORA-Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte
Fachanwaltsordnung
Berufsregeln der Rechtsanwälte der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (CCBE)
EuRAG-Gesetz über die Tätigkeit europäischer Rechtsanwälte in Deutschland

Patent Attorneys:

For German Patent Attorneys:

Patentanwaltsordnung (PatAnwO)-http://jurcom5.juris.de/bundesrecht/patanwo/index.html
Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte-BOPA

For European Patent Attorneys:
Richtlinien des Instituts der beim Europäischen Patentamt zugelassenen Vertreter (epi) für die Berufsausübung- http://www.patentepi.com/deutsch/100/120/

Vorschriften des Verwaltungsrats des Europäischen Patentamts über Disziplinarangelegenheiten- http://www.patentepi.com/deutsch/100/120/

The German Patent Attorneys (to the extent not expressly stated otherwise, the phrase "Patent Attorney" on this website means German Patent Attorney) are registered at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office and are members of the German Chamber of Patent Attorneys (http://www.patentanwalt.de/). The European Patent Attorneys of Hammonds LLP are registered at the European Patent Office and are members of the Institute of EPA admitted representatives (epi, accessible at http://www.patentepi.com/).