Research, development, production and distribution of goods have significantly improved our lives over the last century and especially in recent decades. The success in all areas, be it new medicines, new plastics, agrochemicals, paints and varnishes, fibres or the new issues of biotechnological production, would not have been possible without the corresponding industrial property protection. The core work of the GDCh Division of Patent Law, which was founded in 1949, is the promotion of members working in the fields of patent law, industrial property protection and patent issues. Conferences, seminars and colloquia serve this purpose.

History

The former Division "Industrial Property Protection" was renamed "Division of Patent Law" on 11 November 2019 - legitimised by the General Assembly and following a provisional decision by the Board of Directors of the GDCh on 18 March 2019. The reason for this is, on the one hand, that the German term "industrial property protection" is hardly used in specialist circles and, on the other hand, that there are no chemistry-specific aspects to be considered on the side of non-technical property rights, such as trade marks, so that the Division deals almost exclusively with technical property rights. Here, the term "patent" is often used as a synonym for the entire category of intellectual property rights and is an established term, especially in inventor circles.

Shortlink to this page: www.gdch.de/pat