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DID YOU KNOW?:
The principle of the ball pen actually dates to 1888 when a patent was taken out by John J. Loud for a product to mark leather, however this patent was not exploited commercially.
Biro first patented the pen in 1938 and applied for a fresh patent in Argentina on June 10, 1943 (Ladislo and his brother Georg emigrated to Argentina in 1940.)
The licensing rights to this patent were bought by the British Government for the war effort, the British Royal Air Force needed a new type of pen, one that would not leak at high altitudes in fighter planes like the fountain pen did. Their successful performance for the air force brought the Biro pen into the limelight.
Commercially ball point pens were sold first in Buenos Aires in 1945 by Eterpen Co.
Biro had forgotten to get a U.S. Patent and so even with the end of World War II, the Battle of the Ballpoint Pen was just beginning.
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