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Act on the Protection of Trade Marks and other Signs (DE309)
Act on Costs of the German Patent and Trademark Office and the Federal Patent Court  (DE300)
Act on the Legal Protection of Designs  (DE294)
Act on the Protection of Topographies of Microelectronic Semiconductor Products (Semiconductor Protection Act, as amended up to Act of August 10, 2021)  (DE302)
Act relating to the Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention of November 27, 1963, the Patent Cooperation Treaty of June 19, 1970, and the European Patent Convention of October 5, 1973 (Act on International Patent Treaties, as amended up to Act of August 20, 2021) (DE301)
Patent Act (as amended up to Act of 30 August 2021) (DE284)
Regulation Concerning the Implementation of the Trademark Act (DE306)
Regulation on the Implementation of the Design Act (DE305)
Utility Model Act (as amended up to Act of August 10, 2021) (DE296)
Utility Model Regulations (Utility Model Regulation of May 11, 2004, as amended up to the Regulation of December 10, 2012) (DE179)