Pen Protection

pen protection Arno Ritter: We offer silkscreen, China emerging as a manufacturer 1991 in response to the “green” Ritter was founded pad printing, etching of nearly every type of consumer wave in Europe stimulated by in 1928 by my grand- and laser engrav- product for the global market, it pressure groups and politicians. father, Jacob Ritter, ing. During the past has become increasingly important In the late 1990s, I saw the first who was a joiner 12 years, we have to protect designs. For example, copy of the original design in Hong and cabinetmaker. opened offices in the we recently stopped the produc- Kong. During the last three years, The company crafted U.S., Poland, Czech tion of knockoff copies of one because of the huge demand from handmade furniture Republic and China. of our patented designs by the U.S., we have seen many until 1964 and, during We sell around destroying molds and confiscating copies coming out of China. WWII, manufactured wooden 100 million pens annually in 80 merchandise at the port before And since the pen is an old model, boxes for the Red Cross. Because different countries. Each year, we it could be shipped overseas. registered only in Germany, we of this work, my grandfather was develop and launch two or three cannot do anything about it. lucky enough not to be drafted new pen models. Two years ago, in partnership into the German army. with an internationally renowned Ritter started manufacturing institute, we developed a pens in the 1950s using the latest That the process of registering new plastic pen. This mold injection and retractable design patents in the U.S. is some- plastic has almost the ballpoint technologies from the There are several ways. First, what different than in Europe. same properties as ABS United States. At about the same we make attractive pens with Very few changes from an original thermoplastic, but is time, we started producing pen unique features, such as spring product design can be consid- made 100 percent from parts for well-known companies clips that never break. We also ered a new invention. When you wood instead of food like Faber-Castell, Geha, Pelikan, offer a complete range of register a new pen model for a (other plastics are made of Schwan, Staedtler and Rotring. promotional pens, so we are design patent, you have to think corn). We use wood from The 1960s was the era of the a one-stop resource for our cus- about any changes that somebody controlled wood growers in felt pen and the fine-liners. In tomers. We have options at every looking to copy your design might Europe to produce our pens. price level and we continuously the 1970s, using technologies make, and you need to protect introduced in Japan, we started develop new designs. those changes together with making roller-ball pens. Ever since, the original design. we have manufactured more and more fully assembled pens for the corporate promotion markets. Protecting our designs has become Just one thing: be different. During the 1970s and 1980s, an integral part of our product “Eco” pens are a must in There are different approaches our export business rapidly launches. Patents used to focus every pen range today, but depending on the product. expanded and Ritter became a more on a pen’s technical innova- we started this trend with the It can be price, service, design or well-known name in the industry. tions than its styling, but with launch of our paper pen in even just good marketing..

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