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Links and references

General information

• Ideahelp offers you support and consultancy services relating to innovations at http://www.ideahelp.de.
• www.bff-online.de/ust/useg/ustidbs.php
  Database of the Federal Tax Agency containing European turnover tax identification numbers.

Law

• Texts of all federal laws can be found at http://bundesrecht.juris.de/bundesrecht/.
• Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts: this website (at http://www.regtp.de/) comprises the appropriate acts and official regulations of telecommunications law (download possibility).
• The German Patent and Trademark Office offers comprehensive support in all areas of protective rights that can be registered at http://www.deutsches-patentamt.de/ or at http://www.dpma.de/. You can download among others leaflets (e.g. „How to register a trademark?”) and official forms. The collection of links includes the remaining patent offices all over the world.
• Our law office provides information on trademark law and trademark protection at http://www.diemarkenrechtler.de/.
• The Plant Varieties Office (Bundessortenamt) provides comprehensive information on plant varieties protection rights and rights relating to agricultural crops at http://www.bundessortenamt.de/.
• The University of Saarbrücken offers a comprehensive collection on legal topics at http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/.
• The American association AIPLA presents its activity in the area of commercial property protection at http://www.aipla.org/.
• The IBA (International Bar Association) offers information on international aspects of the lawyer’s profession as well as on legal questions on international level at http://iba.org/.
• A multilevel information platform concerning all issues relating to the European Union, including its legal acts, directives, etc. can be retrieved at the official server at http://europa.eu.int/.
• The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre offers a detailed overview of domain name dispute resolutions.
• GEMA provides copyright collections at http://www.gema.de/.
• Further references relating to media law can be found at http://www.medien-recht.org/.
• Horak Attorneys-at-Law offers details on the topic of trademark law and competition law at http://www.diemarkenrechtler.de/ and http://www.diewerberechtler.de/ respectively