“Aryanization” Expanded?
“Aryanization” Expanded?

Patent Rights of Jews under the Nazi Regime

Author(s): Lida Barner
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Jewish studies
Published by: Central European University Press
Keywords: copyright and patent right;jews;Nazi Germany;
Summary/Abstract: The following chapter examines the fate of intellectual property rights owned by Jews who lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. When the authors and inventors of creations protected by patent, trademark and copyright law were defined as “non-Aryan” and purged from society, what became of the rights to their innovations and the creations themselves? One of the few statements to be found relating to these aspects was by Göring in 1938:“Jewish patents are property values and as such are to be Aryanized as well.” However, what he and others considered “Jewish patents,” whether this call for “aryanization” (that is, the transfer to “Aryans”) was to extend to other types of intellectual property, and how it was put into practice has been largely unexplored.

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