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IFIA Magazine
March 2024

technical information: The German Patent and Center Infothek.
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of information about patent and trademark 75 Years of the Inventors’ Trade Fair iENA
rights, and the Federal Ministry of Economics In 1948, the trade fair organizer AFAG began
and Climate Protection, the European Union organizing the Inventors’ and Innovations’
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Innovative were there as partners. The German decades, the event evolved into the
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iENA in Nuremberg, including, for example,
In addition to numerous international the rolling suitcase, the igloo tent, and the
participants, national inventor clubs and insulation rescue blanket, as well as technical
collectives, as well as private inventors, also developments from all areas of life, such as
presented themselves at the iENA, including the medicine, energy technology, environmental
Förderkreis Ingenieurstudium of the Technical protection, and safety.
Faculty Erlangen. Particularly impressive were
the innovations of the youth inventors, such China was the partner of iENA 2023
as the winners of ”Jugend forscht” or the With exhibitors from around 30 countries and
students from the Schülerforschungszentrum regions, the Inventors’ Fair recorded a higher
Südwürttemberg. The winners of the Artur level of international participation again after
Fischer Inventor Award Baden-Württemberg the pandemic. Henning and Thilo Könicke,
were also eagerly awaited at the iENA and Managing Directors of the fair organizer AFAG,
were presented by the Steinbeis Transfer were pleased to welcome more international