TODAY’S TRADEMARK – ORWO

ORWO is a photographic product and tape brand established in East Germany. As a brand of photographic films and tapes, it is mainly produced in the former ORWO Filmfabrik Wolfen (now Chemical Park Bitterfeld Wolfen ). Wolfen Film Factory was established in 1990. It was part of Aktien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation (Agfa) and has been owned by I. G Farben since 1925. In 1936, a year after Kodachrome, Agfa Wolfen developed one of the first modern color films with built-in Agfa colour connectors. ORWO FilmoTec GmbH was founded in 1998 and continues to produce a variety of early ORWO products, including high-quality 16 mm and 35 mm, black and white, prints, reproductions, sound materials, industrial films, feature films, and photographic films. In cooperation with ORWO North America, ORWO expanded the film; ORWO NA currently supplies all the commercial black and white films of the Library of Congress, in addition to well-known archive clients such as the Smithsonian Institution and MOMA, such as the black and white recorded for you by the Library of Congress the film. The copies saved for the past 5 years have probably been rewritten as ORWO movies. The ORWO brand is used in various photographic products by ORWO Net AG and FilmoTec GmbH.

The trademark of this company was registered in USPTO bearing registration number 1608704 on August 7, 1990.