[78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 28, Issue 7 (German Pat Office)

[AllenAmet at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/2/2011 3:00:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
_78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com_ (mailto:78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com)   
(Stephan) writes:

"The  content (description, drawings) of the registered design for the 
Kaemmer &  Reinhardt gramophone doll was destroyed in WW2. The same applies to 
all early  German registered designs." 


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   When the US Patent Office had a similar disaster back in Dec.  1836, 
many thousands of models and documents were (also) thought  permanently lost. 
However, many (most?) were able to be reconstructed,  including the text and 
contents of the various patents.
 
  Surely, the printed papers of the German Patent Office (ca.  1894) were 
similarly distributed to other offices and libraries (in Germany  and 
elsewhere) and may yet be found? Dare we hope?
 
Allen