(1) The German Patent and Trade Mark Office is tasked with providing the public, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, with general information about intellectual property rights and limitations to such rights, and about the exercise and enforcement of such rights.
(2) The German Patent and Trade Mark Office cooperates, in the fulfilment of its tasks, with intellectual property offices in other countries and regions, with the European Patent Organisation, with the European Union Intellectual Property Office and with the World Intellectual Property Organization. This cooperation encompasses matters related to copyright. Section 65a of the Trade Mark Act (Markengesetz) remains unaffected.