Kaiserliches Patentamt (Imperial Patent Office) 1877 - 1919 Dr. Karl Rudolf Jacobi Term of office: 1 July 1877 - 30 April 1881 Karl Rudolf Jacobi, born on 8 September 1828 in Jeggau, studied law in Halle and Berlin before entering the administrative service of the…
Reichspatentamt 1919 - 1945 Friedrich von Specht Term of office: 1 May 1921 - 30 September 1928 The grandson of the famous military officer of the same name, von Specht was born in Kassel on 6 August 1860 and worked as a lawyer in various positions in the judiciary…
Gallery of presidents Kaiserliches Patentamt (Imperial Patent Office) 1877 - 1919 From Karl Rudolf Jacobi to Heinrich Robolski: The presidents of the Kaiserliches Patentamt Kaiserliches Patentamt 1877 - 1919 Reichspatentamt 1919 - 1945 From Friedrich von Specht to…
Deutsches Patentamt (1945-1998) or Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (since 1998) Prof. Dr. jur. Eduard Reimer Term of office: 1 October 1949 - 5 June 1957 The time without any Patent Office after the end of the Second World War lasted until 1 October 1949, when the…
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Enforcing your rights in practice – tips and tricks Applying for border seizure Customs stops counterfeited goods at the external borders, such as airports, thus preventing their further distribution. This way you can find out as soon as the goods are imported…
Konrad Zuse Making history in the living room In the midst of WWII, Konrad Zuse presented an apparatus in his Berlin flat that is now considered a milestone in the history of technology. What a small group of experts got to see on 12 May 1941 at Methfesselstrasse 7…
Enigma Cryptography and war Enigma: This is the exciting story of an ingenious machine for encrypting messages and the brilliant minds who cracked it - and thus crucially influenced the course of the Second World War, which ended 80 years ago. During WWI, on 23…
The Antikythera mechanism The "first computer" - an ancient miracle of technology Spring 1900 in the Aegean Sea: Off the coast of the small Greek island Antikythera men dive for sponges. They reache into depths of 50 meters and more. One of them, Ilias Stadiatis,…
The 'Big bang' of microelectronics The very first IC Here is the story of an engineer who was not allowed to take a vacation - and who made a groundbreaking invention during this time. Jack Kilby had just started his new job at Texas Instruments in Dallas in the…