1877

The Imperial Patent Office is established.

01/07/1877

C. Kesseler, a civil engineer and patent attorney, opens a Patent and Technical Bureau.

1896

Ernst Meissner joins patent attorneys C. Fehlert and G. Loubier as a patent clerk.

28/04/1909

Ernst Meissner is entered in the list of patent attorneys and made a partner.

01/03/1930

His son, Walter Meissner, is sworn in as a patent attorney.

1945

The firm’s premises at Belle-Alliance-Platz 17 are destroyed.

Firm reopens its new premises in Herbertstrasse 22; it is run as a partnership of patent attorneys W. Meissner and H. Tischer with offices in Berlin, Bremen and Munich.

1964

Patent attorney H.-J. Presting joins firm as a partner.

05/05/1971

Grandson Peter E. Meissner is sworn in as a patent attorney; name of the partnership changed to Meissner & Meissner.

1991

Patent attorney L. Henze joins firm.

01/03/2004

Great-grandson Dr. Christian Meissner joins firm as an attorney and partner.

2006

Dr. Alexander Meissner - Scientific Advisor


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