Cube sugar An invention that sweetened everyday life A very sweet story: Because his wife was said to have injured herself while breaking sugar, Jacob Christoph Rad invented sugar cubes in 1841. Until then, sugar could only be bought in the form of cones or cobs.…
Post-it Career of the sticky notes (with a slow start) Every invention is worthless as long as you do not know what you can use it for. At the DPMA, "industrial applicability" is therefore one of the requirements for patentability of an invention. It may occasionally…
Special occasions Patents of horror Halloween and IP In addition to Christmas and Easter, a third holiday now dominates the seasonal offerings in the stores: Halloween. The creepy fest has established itself as a permanent fixture in the calendar and retail trade. It…
Background Search - Find - Protect Information on how the DPMA and others optimize, protect and develop IP rights. World of Design In our series, we travel through the calendar year – from the atmospheric light of the dark season to the sparkling splendour of…
Halloween and IP Patents of horror In addition to Christmas and Easter, a third holiday now dominates the seasonal offerings in the stores: Halloween. In this country it is controversial and often reviled as an "imported tradition", but the creepy fest has…
Asterix 100th birthday of René Goscinny One hundred years ago, on 14 August 1926, René Goscinny, the creator of ‘Asterix’, was born. He was not only one of the greatest comic book scriptwriters, but also the author of ‘Le Petit Nicolas’, as well as a director and…
35 years "The Simpsons" Money & merchandise, or: When the going gets Duff They are yellow, ugly, chaotic - and incredibly popular: in 1989, "The Simpsons" appeared for the first time on American television. 36 seasons and over 750 episodes later, the series is the…
100th birthday of Lucky Luke´s inventor Morris and the man who draws faster than his shadow One of Europe's most successful comic creators would now have celebrated his 100th birthday: Maurice De Bevere, better known by his pen name "Morris". He is the creator of…
Tintin Comic of the 20th century: The clever boy with the iconic quiff Billions of billious blue blistering barnacles! Can it really be true that Titin and Snowy are 95 years old now? On January 10, 1929, the magazine "Le Petit Vingtième" published the first episode…
Required data and documents You can file your design application online (without signature) or electronically (with a signature) or file a conventional paper-based application. In any case, you must provide details of the applicant and about the products for which…