The only problem was that Bimek was neither a doctor nor a surgeon—he worked in construction. But the daily walk from his home to the job site took him past the Berlin-Kreuzberg patent office. On a whim one day, he stopped in to see if any patents for similar devices already existed.
“I decided to do some research on the topic and discovered that a few developments had already been attempted in this direction,” Bimek says. “But to me, these methods seemed overly complicated and therefore impractical. That was the day I began to develop my ideas and to work on a first prototype.”
“I didn’t know about the size of a spermatic duct nor about its structure,” Bimek explains. “I spent hours, day, weeks, months, years reading, studying the subjects of andrology and urology, gaining extensive knowledge about the complex processes of male genitalia and contraception. I conducted interviews with specialists and scientists, met with many experts and, more often than not, was faced with skepticism and disregard.”