The Chronograph of Inventions

March 10

  • In 1891, Almon B. Strowger was issued a U.S. patent for his electromechanical switch to automate a telephone exchange. Strowger did not invent the idea of automatic switching (it was first invented in 1879 by Connolly and McTigthe) but Strowger was the first to put it to effective use.

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  • 02.02.2010 - Fresh round of voting for next EPO President

    The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation will once again vote to elect the next President of the European Patent Office (EPO). At an extraordinary meeting in Munich on 2/3 February, delegations of the 36 member states of the Organisation will vote to nominate a successor to EPO President Alison Brimelow.

    The candidates for the presidency are Susanne ?s Sivborg, Director General of the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, Benoît Battistelli, Director General of the French National Institute of Industrial Property, and Roland Grossenbacher, Director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property.

    The Council called the extraordinary meeting after two successive attempts to elect a president (at the October and December 2009 Council meetings) failed, as none of the candidates managed to obtain the required qualified majority of three-quarters of the votes cast by the Organisation's member states.

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