Introduction
Inductees
Don Banner
Heinz
Bardehle
Birch Bayh
Friedrich
Karl Beier
Johann van
Benthem
Arpad Bogsch
Edward Coke
Thomas Edison
Kurt Härtel
Victor Hugo
Robin Jacob
Thomas
Jefferson
Klaus-Dieter
Langfinger
Bruce Lehman
James Madison
Howard T
Markey
Alexander
von Mühlendahl
Melville
Nimmer
Marshall
Phelps
Giles
Rich
Frank
Isaac Schechter
Dudley Smith
Korekiyo
Takahashi
Panellists
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Härtel was president of the German Patent Office at a time when the European Patent Convention was under discussion; he played a leading role in ensuring that the convention became a realty. He was the driving force behind both the Munich and the Luxembourg Patent Conventions, negotiating (among others) on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany to get those treaties in place. Before becoming President of the German Patent Office in 1963, he spent many years working within the German Ministry of Justice.