Patent and Trademark Center Baden-Württemberg
The Baden-Württemberg Patent and Trademark Center of the Stuttgart Regional Council is the oldest institution of its kind in Baden-Württemberg and is located in the Haus der Wirtschaft Baden-Württemberg in the center of Stuttgart. As a public institution, it supports medium-sized companies, start-ups, inventors and university members in Baden-Württemberg. The focus of this support is the free provision of neutral information on all commercial property rights :
The Baden-Württemberg Patent and Trademark Center also has a display point for standards and guidelines .
The Patent and Trademark Center Baden-Württemberg is a member of the German Patent Information Centers working group. V. (PIZnet)
The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Finance and Economics has commissioned the Baden-Württemberg Patent and Trademark Center with the organizational implementation of the Baden-Württemberg State's Innovation Prize . This is awarded annually to small and medium-sized companies from industry, trade and technological services based in Baden-Württemberg for exemplary performance in the development of new products, processes and technological services or in the application of modern technologies in products, production or services.
Furthermore, the Baden-Württemberg Patent and Trademark Center and the Steinbeis Transfer Center Infothek support the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung gGmbH in organizing the Artur Fischer Inventor Award . As part of the inventor competition, inventions by students and private inventors are awarded every two years.
history
In 1848, the Society for the Promotion of Trades asked the Württemberg government to set up its own authority to support the individual trades. In the same year, King Wilhelm I set up the Royal Central Office for Trade and Industry . Thus began the state promotion of trade in Württemberg. Wilhelm I approved the construction of a model warehouse and thus lays the foundation stone for the later state trade museum . The result is a collection that promoted trade and taste training as well as technical progress and which seems to serve sales.
In 1856 the Royal Central Office for Trade and Industry opened a patent collection. With his growing eagerness to collect, President Ferdinand von Steinbeis ensured that the library soon became too small. The sample warehouse that existed at the same time with technical devices and handicrafts from all over the world and all epochs grew steadily. So there was a plan to build a separate building for the collections.
In 1896 the Royal Württemberg State Trade Museum was opened after a six-year construction period with an exhibition for electrical engineering and applied arts. This exhibition is dedicated to the new energy source electricity. At the same time, the central office takes on the function of an official patent display point, which had to be accessible for general inspection. Since 1908, free weekly inventor advice has been offered in this facility.
In 1921 the Central Office for Trade and Commerce was renamed the Landesgewerbeamt. Around 1930 the library was first called the Public Library for Technology, Art and Business.
In order to avoid possible destruction by the Second World War , the patent specification office was relocated to Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1943 to protect the holdings. In 1944, the library that remained in Stuttgart was completely destroyed by fire bombs. A temporary arrangement was set up in the badly damaged building, in which the library resumed lending operations on July 1, 1945.
After the merger of the three south-west German states to form the new state of Baden-Württemberg, the Baden-Württemberg State Trade Office was established in 1952, with its headquarters in Stuttgart and a branch in Karlsruhe. In the same year the library opened its doors in a part of the restored, former library hall.
In 1985, Prime Minister Lothar Späth decided to expand it into the Haus der Wirtschaft, which should serve the national economy. From 1986 to 1990 the building was converted into a modern service building. It unites various economic development institutions under one roof.
In the fall of 1989, the Patents Information Center - formerly known simply as the patent display point - moved into its current premises. In July 1990 the renovation of the building was completed and it was presented to the public in a ceremony.
In the course of the administrative reform, the state trade office was dissolved in 2004. The Patents Information Center was assigned to the Stuttgart Regional Council.
The Patents Information Center was renamed the Baden-Württemberg Patent and Trademark Center in July 2018.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the innovation award of the state of Baden-Württemberg. Accessed August 26, 2014.
- ^ Website of the Artur Fischer Inventor Award. Accessed August 26, 2014.
- ↑ Haus der Wirtschaft Baden-Württemberg: History brochure on the history of economic development in the south-west of Germany, pp. 3–4
- ↑ ... serve for the benefit of society. On the history of trade promotion in Baden and Württemberg , published by the Baden-Württemberg State Trade Office and others
- ↑ Press release of the Stuttgart Regional Council , accessed on August 31, 2018.