You stated:
Therefore, Germany required us to summit our patent to the very prestigious Munich Patent Court for a validity review (an examination to see if we were qualified with respects to German patent law) where we just received our German patent
From the link provided, you'll find that the application is date stamped 13.09.00
and the Veröffentlichungstag im Patentblatt is 1. 3.2001
I was in total diagreement with your statement.
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