Wine chocolate, bubbly chocolate and medical sweets

All over the world people celebrated World Chocolate Day on 7 July. On this occasion the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office collected the most interesting chocolate-related patents from the last 125 years. In 1896 a patent request wanted to establish the category of medical sweets, with the purpose of chocolate and other confectionery products hiding the bitterness of medicine. Three years later there was a request for patenting the wine chocolate concept.

Today many major chocolate companies have bubby products in the market, but it is very interesting that already before World War II a patent request for bubbly chocolate was submitted to the office. Actually Hungary’s first chocolate factory was established by Frigyes Stühmer already in 1868. Their best-known product is Tibi (named after the founder’s grandson), which appeared on store shelves in 1941, but the company had already had the brand name registered in 1935.

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