The German Patent and Trade Mark Office is the German national patent office, with headquarters in Munich, and offices in Berlin and Jena. In 2006 it employed 2556 people, of which about 700 were pate
Premises of the DPMA on Zweibrückenstraße, Munich, next to the headquarters of the European Patent Office (not visible, see image below)
Aerial image of the DPMA at Zweibrückenstraße, comprising the square-shaped and the long reddish building in the upper left part of the image. Right below it is the dark-coloured headquarters of the European Patent Office, above in the background lies the science museum Deutsches Museum on the other side of the river Isar.
Cincinnatistraße branch, Munich
Helmut Gröttrup
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Helmut Gröttrup was a German engineer, rocket scientist and inventor of the smart card. During World War II, he worked in the German V-2 rocket program under Wernher von Braun. From 1946 to 1950 he he
Gröttrup, c. 1977
Helmut Gröttrup explaining the basic principles of rockets (1958)
Functional prototype of Giesecke & Devrient's first banknote processing system ISS 300 (1974)
Sensor section of ISS 300 prototype (1974)