The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) has just released its 2004 Annual Report (PDF, in German only) reporting some increase in filing numbers for patents (plus 1.5 percent), utility modes (plus 1.1 percent), and trade marks (plus 6.2 percent). In contrast, filings for German national design registrations have dropped by 9.4 percent. At the end of 2004, a total of 2.255 Patentanwälte (German Patent Attorneys) were registered, an all-time maximum never seen before (Nevertheless this figure looks quite vanishing against the number of 132.569 Rechtsanwälte (Attorneys-At-Law) registered in Germany on January 01, 2005).
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Dipl.-Phys. Axel H Horns is Patentanwalt (German Patent Attorney),
European Patent Attorney as well as European Trade Mark Attorney. In particular, he is Member of: