{"id":1558,"date":"2024-02-09T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2024-02-09T13:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:31:11","slug":"freelance-inventors-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Freelance inventors in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1558\" class=\"elementor elementor-1558\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2c62bef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default exad-glass-effect-no rael-particle-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"2c62bef\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;rae_animations_entrance&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2539b20 exad-glass-effect-no rael-particle-no exad-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"2539b20\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58caa0e exad-sticky-section-no exad-glass-effect-no elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"58caa0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Groundbreaking inventions, such as the expanding dowel or the airbag, originate from imaginative inventors. Such inventions are usually the intellectual achievements of so-called &#8220;<em>independent inventors<\/em>&#8221; who are technically creative without a company in the background and apply for a patent or utility model as a private individual.<\/p><p>&#8220;<em>Freelance inventors<\/em> <em>often work under difficult conditions and yet they continue to hold their own against the development departments of large companies<\/em>,&#8221; says GPTO President Eva Schewior. &#8220;<em>They are an indispensable part of our innovation ecosystem and we at the GPTO will continue to support them in the best possible way<\/em>.&#8221;<sup>1<\/sup><\/p><p><sup>\u00a0<\/sup>Information in passing:<br \/>Just under a quarter of the approximately 2,000 patent applications from last year were filed by independent inventors from Bavaria (448). This is followed in the ranking by North Rhine-Westphalia (360) and Baden-Wuerttemberg (308).<sup>2<\/sup><\/p><p><em><sup>1<\/sup><\/em><em>German Patent and Trademark Office and KRS 06\/23, p. 217<br \/><\/em><em><sup>2<\/sup>Chamber Circular (KRS) 06\/23, p. 217<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>February 9, 2024<\/em><br \/><em>Vanessa Bockhorni<\/em><br \/><em>Patent Attorney<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundbreaking inventions, such as the expanding dowel or the airbag, originate from imaginative inventors. Such inventions are usually the intellectual achievements of so-called &#8220;independent inventors&#8221; who are technically creative without a company in the background and apply for a patent or utility model as a private individual. &#8220;Freelance inventors often work under difficult conditions and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Freelance inventors in Germany - Patguard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Freelance inventors in Germany - Patguard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Groundbreaking inventions, such as the expanding dowel or the airbag, originate from imaginative inventors. Such inventions are usually the intellectual achievements of so-called &#8220;independent inventors&#8221; who are technically creative without a company in the background and apply for a patent or utility model as a private individual. &#8220;Freelance inventors often work under difficult conditions and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Patguard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-09T12:29:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-09T12:31:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"web199\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"web199\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"web199\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/59a948777121b0b0442ce8dee4259b2a\"},\"headline\":\"Freelance inventors in Germany\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-09T12:29:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-09T12:31:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Allgemein\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\\\/\",\"name\":\"Freelance inventors in Germany - Patguard\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-09T12:29:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-09T12:31:11+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Freelance inventors in Germany\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/\",\"name\":\"Patguard\",\"description\":\"Bockhorni &amp; Br\u00fcntjen\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Patguard\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Logo1en.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/Logo1en.png\",\"width\":436,\"height\":163,\"caption\":\"Patguard\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/59a948777121b0b0442ce8dee4259b2a\",\"name\":\"web199\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/390de1e00d37cc15592249aaeef9ec1c30a854d3fb6b2643a20641d88fdacd49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/390de1e00d37cc15592249aaeef9ec1c30a854d3fb6b2643a20641d88fdacd49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/390de1e00d37cc15592249aaeef9ec1c30a854d3fb6b2643a20641d88fdacd49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"web199\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.patguard.de\\\/eng\\\/author\\\/web199\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Freelance inventors in Germany - Patguard","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Freelance inventors in Germany - Patguard","og_description":"Groundbreaking inventions, such as the expanding dowel or the airbag, originate from imaginative inventors. Such inventions are usually the intellectual achievements of so-called &#8220;independent inventors&#8221; who are technically creative without a company in the background and apply for a patent or utility model as a private individual. &#8220;Freelance inventors often work under difficult conditions and [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/","og_site_name":"Patguard","article_published_time":"2024-02-09T12:29:11+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-02-09T12:31:11+00:00","author":"web199","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"web199","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/"},"author":{"name":"web199","@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/59a948777121b0b0442ce8dee4259b2a"},"headline":"Freelance inventors in Germany","datePublished":"2024-02-09T12:29:11+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-09T12:31:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/"},"wordCount":152,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Allgemein"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/","name":"Freelance inventors in Germany - Patguard","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-02-09T12:29:11+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-09T12:31:11+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/freelance-inventors-in-germany\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Freelance inventors in Germany"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/","name":"Patguard","description":"Bockhorni &amp; Br\u00fcntjen","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/#organization","name":"Patguard","url":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/Logo1en.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/Logo1en.png","width":436,"height":163,"caption":"Patguard"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/#\/schema\/person\/59a948777121b0b0442ce8dee4259b2a","name":"web199","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/390de1e00d37cc15592249aaeef9ec1c30a854d3fb6b2643a20641d88fdacd49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/390de1e00d37cc15592249aaeef9ec1c30a854d3fb6b2643a20641d88fdacd49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/390de1e00d37cc15592249aaeef9ec1c30a854d3fb6b2643a20641d88fdacd49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"web199"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/author\/web199\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patguard.de\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}