TODAY’S TRADEMARK – FRIWO

Friwo Gerätebau GmbH is a German company headquartered in Ostbevern, Germany that traces his establishment to 1884. Since the development of the first power supply unit in 1971,^[3] the company manufactures battery chargers, battery packs, power supplies and LED drivers. The company also provides electronic design and manufacturing services (E²MS) in Europe. The Friwo equipment manufacturing GmbH, a subsidiary of the General Standard listed Friwo AG, develops, manufactures and sells drivers, power supplies and chargers under the brand name Friwo LED. Other products include LED lighting technology, electric mobility, power tools, consumer equipment, medical devices, and industrial automation machinery. The principal shareholder of Friwo AG is a subsidiary of VTC Industry Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Munich. In 1884, Carl Wolf founded the company Friemann & Wolf in the West Saxon town of Zwickau to take advantage of his 1881 patent for the gasoline safety miner’s lamp (Wolf lamp) for the coal industry.^[1] It started electric battery production in 1903. During World War II it was a leading electric battery supplier for the Wehrmacht, and after the war it was confiscated by the Allies.

The trademark of this company was registered in USPTO bearing registration number 4211878 on October 20, 1992.