Kurt Haertel

Kurt Haertel (26 September 1910, Berlin – 30 March 2000, Seefeld am Ammersee ) was a German patent lawyer. He is sometimes referred to as one of the "fathers of the European patent law", He was President of the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (German Patent and Trade Mark Office) from 1963 to 1975.

Since 2003, a street in Munich, Germany, is named after him, the "Kurt-Haertel-Passage".

Publications

Die Rückgliederung des Saarlandes auf dem Gebiet des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes, des Wettbewerbsrechts und des Urheberrechts, GRUR 1957, 98 (with Albrecht Krieger) The New European Patent System, Its Present Situation and Significance, (Dec. 1978) I.I.C., Vol. 19, No.6