Request for subsequent designation By submitting a request for subsequent designation, you can add (subsequently designate) further countries to your international trade mark registration or add (for an already designated country) further goods and services from 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…
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International application for registration of a mark Under the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (PMMA), you can extend the protection of your applied-for or registered national trade mark internationally. To…
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…
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,…
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 International Patent Classification IPC Structure of the IPC The IPC is a hierarchical system in which all technical knowledge for the field of inventions is divided into sections, classes, subclasses, main groups and subgroups, in descending order of hierarchy.…
Charles Babbage The lady and the calculator On 18 October 1871, an all-round genius died who is now considered the "father of the computer": Charles Babbage. His "Analytical Engine" anticipated many features of modern computers. But hardly anyone recognised the true…
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…