Who we are - What we do

Research, development, production and distribution of goods have significantly improved our lives in the last century and especially in the last decades. Success in all areas, be it new medicines, new plastics, agrochemicals, paints and varnishes, fibers and even the new issues of biotechnological production, was not possible without the appropriate intellectual property protection. The core work of the GDCh Division , which was founded in 1949, is the promotion of members active in the areas of patent law, industrial property rights and patent issues. Work conferences, seminars and colloquia serve this purpose.

history

The former “ industrial property protection ” Division was renamed the “ patent law ” specialist Division on November 11th, 2019 - legitimized by the General Assembly and following a preliminary decision by the GDCh board on March 18th, 2019. The reason is, on the one hand, that the German term “ industrial property protection” is hardly used in specialist circles anymore. And, on the other hand, there are no chemical-specific aspects to be taken into account on the non-technical property rights side, such as trademarks, so that the Division focuses almost exclusively on it concerned with technical property rights. Here the term “patent” is often used as a synonym for the entire type of property rights and is an established term, especially in inventor circles.

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