Filinchen – the waffle bread from Apolda Registered word/figurative mark "Filinchen" DE30156584 Popular in GDR times Patent 21253 from 1957 “Filinchen” is a thin waffle bread from Thuringia, which was very well known and popular in the GDR. Even today it is still…
Cycling culture from Chemnitz Trade mark “Kopf über Fahrradlenker” from 1911 Clever bikes labelled with a head On 1 January 1885, the brothers Friedrich and Wilhelm Nevoigt founded their first joint enterprise. They produced knitting machine sinkers for hosiery mills…
Kathi – exquisite baking ideas in the East Registered word/figurative mark DE 30760761 Necessity is the mother of invention There was serious hardship in the post-war years; a daily experience for Kaethe and Kurt Thiele. Eggs, flour, sugar – everything was in short…
Halloren – the sweet buttons from Halle Registered word/figurative mark Wort-Bildmarke DE30324429 “Halloren-Kugeln” Germany’s oldest chocolate factory The history of the “Halloren” chocolate factory dates back to 1804: In Halle an der Saale, the gingerbread maker…
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…
Dr. Heidemarie Seidel „‘If you don’t fight, you’ve to get back into the kitchen’ – I saw this slogan on a sign in early December 1989. This inspired me to co-found the ‘Independent Women’s Association’ in Berlin and to speak up for the interests of working women…
Thomas Walther „The colleagues from the DPA were quite astonished that we used boilerplates on the computer to write office actions. At that time, this was not common practice at the DPA in Munich.“ Patent examiner and head of division at the AfEP and the DPMA At…
Bernd Antonius „The AfEP had an organisational structure that can also be found at the patent office today, with a president, a vice-president and directorates general subdivided according to technical aspects. The Directorate General ‘Documentation’, responsible…
30 years of German unity – two German patent offices merged to become one office Further topics Personal memories Traditional East Brands The DPMA today 30 years of German unity in intellectual property On 3 October 1990, the German Patent Office (DPA), as the German…
Monika Gerstmann „After I had come to Munich with fears and certain prejudices, I quickly realised that they did not have any magic formula either and I was well able to fulfil my tasks.“ Former patent examiner at the AfEP and the DPMA "It was clear that there had to…