Customers Inventions

Further information on the Unified Patent Court

Establishment of the patent with unitary effect and the unified patent jurisdiction “Further to our previous communication on this subject, we would like to inform you that certain provisions…

SME Fund

SME Fund 2023: Financing for European SMEs and SMIs “As in 2021 and in 2022, the SME Fund (fund directed to the SMEs and managed by the European Union…

Soon uptake of the European unitary patent

In 2023, the European unitary patent will finally be implemented on June 1st. This new system will provide uniform protection in 25 EU Member States, with the European Patent…

The parachute

To shine in society, when evoking the history of fundamental inventions such as the parachute, one takes little risk in quoting the name of the inevitable Leonardo da Vinci.…

Invention of the bra

An early feminist, Herminie Cadolle, a Corsican worker and a valiant Communard close to Louise Michèle, decides that this object of torture must be stopped: it deforms bodies and…

The non-stick pan

If fried eggs have been sliding happily into your pan without the addition of oil since 1956, it's thanks to Marc Grégoire. A flashback is necessary. Indeed, at the…

The zipper

A lawyer's robe has 33 buttons, like the age of Christ at his death. This corporation, originally represented by clergymen in cassocks, never took advantage of the patented invention…

Contact lenses

Once again, we can find an idea close to the invention that concerns us in the writings of the greatest inventor of all time. But if in 1508, in…

The rolling cart

It is impossible to imagine shopping in a supermarket without it. That's what Sylvan N. Goldmann, an Oklahoma-based grocer, quickly realized. In 1937, when he transforms his business into…

The ball bearing

4,500 years ago, in Egypt, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was being built. It was on the construction site of the pyramids of Giza that…

The jeans

Denim takes its name from a sturdy fabric, made of wool and linen, manufactured in the independent Republic of Genoa in the 18th century. It is then used in…

The invention of tires

40 years later, and without knowing Thomson's invention, another Scotsman, John Boyd Dunlop, a veterinarian probably tired of the noise caused by the solid wooden wheels of his son's…