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patent
For achievement in the range of technique, the patent is available as most important Intellectual Property right in Germany. It provides the most extensive protection and credibleness for its owner because of the objective scope of protection,duration and substantive examination during the granting procedure. The German Patent Act as well as some regulations provide the legal basis. According to § 1 of the German Patent Act, technical inventions are subject of protection for a patent. In the legal practice of the German Federal Court of Justice an invention is defined as the tenet of the solution of a technical problem, a rule for acting methodically by use of controllable natural forces to effect a causally manageable success, which shall be continuable, realizable and complete. Manufacturing processes and working methods, particular appliances, objects, materials, apparatus and devices can be patented. According to § 1 (1) of the Patent Act patents shall be granted for technical inventions which
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