Section 137

Legal aid may be revoked if the invention in respect of which an application has been filed or which is protected by patent on the basis of which legal aid has been granted is exploited commercially by sale, use, issue of a licence or in another way and the income generated thereby changes the conditions relevant to the grant of legal aid such that the party concerned can be reasonably expected to pay the costs of the proceedings; this also applies after the expiry of the period under section 124 (1) no. 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The party which has been granted legal aid is to inform that authority which took the decision on the grant of legal aid of each commercial exploitation of this invention.