Kindermann is expanding its international footprint with the appointment of York-based Tukans as its distributor for the U.K. and Ireland. Head of international sales at Kindermann, Romano Cunsolo, explains that “our strength in our home market of Germany is built on innovative products and solutions backed by a team of experts. Customers in international markets will […]
Kindermann is now presenting itself with a modern brand image and is launching a quality offensive in all areas as well as an innovative reseller online shop soon. The impetus for the renewal came from Dominic Hoffmann, who started at Kindermann GmbH as marketing manager a good year ago. It quickly became clear to him […]
The Duesseldorf District Court (Germany) just issued a preliminary ruling on the Barco Kindermann lawsuit — you may recall that Barco sued Kinderman in 2018 for patent infringement of their ClickShare. After launching its Klick & Show product during ISE 2018, Barco entered a lawsuit against Kindermann claiming, “copied” their wireless sharing patent. Yesterday, the […]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office reconfirmed the patentability of the Barco ClickShare button and refused to invalidate Barco’s related US patent. Early 2018, a U.S. law firm acting on behalf of an undisclosed party had instituted a reexamination procedure with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in an attempt to invalidate Barco’s […]
The Kindermann Klick & Show wireless presentation solution was originally launched into the market in October 2017. During the course of the ISE 2018 the product was presented to a larger AV community for the first time and immediately turned out to be a tremendous success — even though Barco issued a press release claiming to ask Kindermann to […]
Update: The Klick & Show was shown at ISE 2018 on Kindermann’s stand. A new story is here. Today, on the opening day of ISE, Barco instructed bailiffs to approach the booth of Kindermann and collect evidence of its Klick & Show wireless presentation system present at the show. Barco will now use this evidence […]
German company Kindermann was previously known mostly for its slide and overhead projectors, but in recent years, it has delved into almost every type of AV product, including digital signage.