A playful journey through the DPMA’s DEPATISnet database reveals more than a century of patents dedicated to egg-laying Easter bunnies. As early as 1894, inventors patented mechanical toy hares equipped with hidden channels, spring-loaded magazines, rotating drums, and cleverly actuated flaps that dispense eggs, sweets, or coins on command. Later filings added synchronized ear-wiggling, continuous egg output, automated collection cycles, and even devices for cooking, coloring, labeling, and decorating eggs.

The Easter Bunny, it turns out, is less a zoological anomaly than a triumph of inventive engineering. Sometimes, the best answers really are hidden in patent claims.

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