Inventors’ consultations are held monthly at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Freiburg / Only a few ideas are successful.
. An electrical device to fight all evil in the world – a creative mind has come to the inventors’ consultation of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) in Freiburg, which takes place every month, with such an idea. Even if this invention ultimately proved to be unsound, there are always inventors from the region whose ideas lead to considerable economic success. An important aspect is the application for a patent, possibly also other industrial property rights.
“One very important aspect is the right timing when filing a patent application,” says Karl Rackette, a graduate physicist and patent attorney with a law office in Freiburg for around 40 years. Because you could be too late with it. “Some inventors, for example, want to test the market first and go public with their idea,” explains Rackette. But that would block effective protection, and the patent would become obsolete. “You no longer need to tie up a dead dog,” says the expert. However, if you are too early and have not yet properly understood your own invention, the patent application is often too incomplete, and imitators find it all too easy to obtain protection through …
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