As no satisfactory production facilities could be found in Dresden, the fast-growing company moved in 1929 to Minden in eastern Westphalia. Intellectual Property Rights and their commercial development are complex subjects and professional advice should always be sought at the appropriate stage. Her father was a publisher. Procedures and regulations vary from country to country. This advice applies to any disclosure, no matter how select or reputable the agency. I’ve been drinking coffee since 1982, but until a visit to Taiwan about five years ago, nothing else had eaten the beans before they became the grounds that made all the brown stimulant I drank. The result was a price war from which both sugar and coffee consumers greatly benefited, but which yielded millions of dollars in losses for the two companies. Demand for the simple, newfangled invention exploded thereafter. Durant la Première Guerre mondiale les métaux sont réquisitionnés pour la construction de zeppelins, son mari est envoyé se battre en Roumanie, le papier est rationné et les importations de café sont interdites. Sipping more coffee these days? This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except for material where copyright is reserved by a party other than FEE. Retrieved from, This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 13:49. Melitta invented them in 1908 and they were introduced at the Leipzig Trade Fair a year later, she sold a great many there. It is named after Melitta Bentz who founded the company after she invented the drip brew paper coffee filter. She came up with a better idea. Lawrence W. Reed is FEE's President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). Are you looking for never-ending fun in this exciting logic-brain app? It was in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei that I tried my first cup of coffee made from the droppings of civets, a tropical forest cat. You can read more about it in FEE’s archives here. She employed thousands of people. However, please do not send us confidential information. By Percolators of the day over-brewed coffee at the expense of its taste, imparting an annoying bitter flavor. Warning - We are always delighted to receive information from inventors and companies regarding their wonderful inventions. (n.d.). Bentz transferred the majority stake in Melitta-Werke Aktiengesellschaft to Horst and Willy in 1932, but kept a hand in the business, ensuring that the employees were cared for, offering Christmas bonuses, increasing vacation days from 6 to 15 days per year, and reducing the working week to 5 days.