Regulatory and Legal

Dehns

Dehns is an English partnership as defined under The Partnership Act 1890. The partners of Dehns are UK Registered and European* Patent and/or Trade Mark Attorneys and/or German Patent Attorneys or are solicitors regulated by the SRA and entitled to practise in England & Wales.

Dehns is regulated by IPReg under the Legal Services Act 2007. Click HERE (https://ipreg.org.uk/pro/regulations/code-of-conduct ) for regulation details and HERE (https://ipreg.org.uk/registers/3775 ) for entity registration details.

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Dehns operates through 6 offices in the UK and through a branch office in Munich.

Dehns Germany Partnerschaft mbB

Dehns is a German partnership company with limited liability (PartGmbB) registered under the number PR 991 with AG München. VAT: DE272700579

The partners of Dehns are German Patent Attorneys (Patentanwälte) and/or UK registered patent and/or trade mark attorneys. All partners are also European Patent and/or Trade Mark Attorneys*.

German patent attorneys are registered by listings administrated by the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), and are also members of the German Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer, www.patentanwaltskammer.de). German patent attorneys are subject to the professional rules stipulated by the German Patent Attorney Code (Patentanwaltsordnung, BGBl. I 1966, 557, BGBl. I 2001, 3656) and the Professional Code of Conduct for Patent Attorneys (Berufsordnung der Patentanwälte, Mitt. 1997, 243). They are also members of the ‘Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle’ and as such subject to its code of professional conduct (www.ficpi.org).

Professional Liabiliy Insurance

Dehns is insured by R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG ▪ Raiffeisenplatz 1 ▪ 65189 Wiesbaden/Germany. The territorial scope of the insurance covers activities in the member states of the European Union and thus meets at least the requirements of § 45 (1) of Patent Attorney Professional Code (PatAnwO).

Dehns operates through an office in Munich.

Dehns Nordic AS (trading as Dehns)

Dehns is a Norwegian limited liability company registered under the business registration number 925 704 261. The directors of Dehns are Norwegian patent attorneys and/or UK registered patent attorneys.

Dehns operates through an office in Oslo.

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*European Patent Attorneys are registered at the European Patent Office and are members of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (www.patentepi.com). As such, they are subject to its code of professional conduct (epi-information 2/2001, 75) as well as the disciplinary rules set out by the European Patent Organisation’s board of directors.

*European Trade Mark Attorneys are registered at the European Union Intellectual Property Office. They are subject to the prescriptions of council regulations regarding European Union Trade Marks and Registered Community Designs.

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