 The Federal office for security in IT (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik ) uses with StarOffice on all computers the ODF format in a cast deployment.Since September 2007 all communications with the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) and the Federal Patent Court (Bundespatentgericht) may be transmitted in the ODF format.The same has already applied for a while to other high courts, i.e.