Who we are - What we do

Research, development, manufacture and sale of goods have decisively improved our lives in the last century and especially in the last few decades. Success in all areas, be it with the new medicines, the new plastics, agrochemicals, paints and varnishes, fibers through to the new issues of biotechnological production, would not have been possible without the appropriate commercial legal protection. The core work of the GDCh Division, which was founded in 1949, is the promotion of members working in the fields of patent law, commercial legal protection and patent issues. Working conferences, seminars and colloquia serve this purpose.

The former Division "industrial property protection " was renamed the specialist Division "patent law " on November 11th, 2019 - legitimized by the General Assembly and after the stock decision of the GDCh board on March 18th, 2019. The reason is, on the one hand, that the German term " industrial property protection" is hardly ever used in specialist circles. On the other hand, there are no chemical-specific aspects to be considered on the side of non-technical property rights, such as trademarks, so that the Division is almost exclusively concerned with technical property rights. Here, the term "patent" is often used as a synonym for the entire type of protective right and is an established term, especially in inventor circles.

Short link to this page: www.gdch.de/pat