Maxton Langmaack & Partner's eServices We are committed to our profession. It is our aim to deliver to our clients more than compre-hensive advisory services. We also provide innovative solutions both for the management of our client's protective rights and the monitoring of third party protective rights. Here, our eSer-vices play an important role. eService: Protective Right Portfolio After logging in to our internet website, you can recall at any time and any place in the world all relevant data pertaining to the protective rights we administer for you. Our protective right port-folio has a module structure which is based on the nature of the respective protective right – patents, utility models, trade marks, industrial designs, domains and announcements claiming protection for a title. In each module you can navigate through your protective right portfolio without outside observers gaining insight. Confidentiality is ensured through our encoded data access system. You will obtain an array of information which goes beyond, for example, a statement listing your trade marks: you can inspect each individual protective right and recall additional information. The export interface enables you to transfer data of your choice into charts customized to your requirements. As an added feature, via a separate module you can recall the renewal dates for your protective rights. Information on the costs, as available, asso-ciated with the renewals, will also be provided – making budget-planning easy. Please note, all information on the costs will be under reserve as costs might vary due to increases in fees and exchange rate fluctuations. A great advantage of the system is its flexibility: In addition to be-ing able to consult the modules of your choice, you can also define the access authorization to modules for persons of your choice. This provides you with the opportunity to compile display options of your protective right portfolio tailor-made to your company's structure. Thus, every-body in your company obtains the information necessary in their area – while the strictest pos-sible confidentiality is maintained.

eService: Patent Watching The setting-up of a patent and utility patent watch system is essential for the research and de-velopment of your company as well as the monitoring of competitive markets, and in order to maintain the value of your patent and utility patent portfolio. With your help we develop watch profiles in order to monitor, for example, certain competitors alone or in combination with cer-tain technical areas. A watch can be regional and limited to, for instance, Germany. However, it can also include the most important application countries thus enabling you at an early stage to keep abreast of developments abroad. All published patents, patent applications and utility patents turned up in a watch will be made available for your inspection on the Client Area of our website, independent of place and time. Firstly, the system will display to you the biblio-graphical data, a summary as well as the first figure. Via buttons you can then view and download the claims or the description as well as the entire document. Of special importance for you might be that one or more members of your staff can earmark the website with re-marks, for example, whether the document that was turned up is of importance for the devel-opment of your company or whether the patent application has to be monitored with a view to the patent being granted. These remarks will be stored. By adjusting the programme settings you can predetermine – adapted to the requirements of your organization - which of the pro-files to be monitored will be displayed, who can view them, who should be authorized to ear-mark the documents with remarks and who will have access to those remarks. This allows the targeted analysis of the latest information and helps you keep the overview of the multitude of information. If you wish to test-access our eServices, do not hesitate to contact us. It will be our pleasure to demonstrate the system to you.