Court of Justice 22 April 1999, C-44/98 (BASF AG v Präsident des Deutschen Patentamts.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I - The question referred for a preliminary ruling and the facts and law in the main proceedings 1 By order registered at the Court of Justice on 20 February 1998, the Bundespatentgericht (Federal Patents Court), Germany, sought an interpretation from the Court of Articles 30 and 36 of the EC Treaty with regard to the German law