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

[S. Puille]

While the German patent register, starting from number 1 in 1877, was found important enough to be protected in a bunker, the design register was abandoned to the bombardment of the allies. 
I am skeptical about whether isolated documents survived the war. I am a regular visitor of the Berlin patent office (one of two patent offices in Germany - the other one is located in Munich). Officials of the patent office whom I contacted concerning the Kämmer & Reinhardt talking doll design years ago couldn't help.
Stephan 



> From: AllenAmet at aol.com
> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 15:50:38 -0500
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 28, Issue 7 (German Pat Office)
> 
>  
> 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
>  
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