Magyar Kiralyi Szabadalmi Hivital

János Frecskay, director of the patent office starting 1895

The Magyar Kiralyi Szabadalmi Hivital (Hungarian Royal Patent Office) was the Hungarian patent office at the time of early aero.

We have scattered facts about it. Note that family name is usually first in Hungarian writing; we have reversed those as written here in English.

• It appears to have been entirely independent of the Austrian one, although they were both within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• János Frecskay worked as an archivist in the patent archives of the Ministry of Commerce. In 1892 he was appointed Director General of Book and Map Library, and in 1895 Director General of the Royal Hungarian Patent Office, and at the same time he was the editor of the patent gazette, Szabadalmi Kőzlőny.

The present-day Hungarian patent office, whose website is quite helpful to us, is called the Szellemi Tulajdon Nemzeti Hivatala. The Szellemi Tulajdon Nemzeti Hivatala database in anglophone setting covers the all Hungarian patents, from the earliest days up through those of today. Therefore, any patent of interest to us, will come up as "not under protection". That does not mean that the patent was not granted. It means that the patent has long since expired. National designation fairly often comes up as "XX". This generally means that a location was during the period on which we are focused part of the Kingdom of Hungary, and is now part of some other nation.