Published on: 10. December 2025 Announcements Announcement of the cessation of the option to file via eOLF, the electronic filing program of the European Patent Office (section 3 (4) sentence 1 of the Ordinance on Electronic Legal Transactions with the DPMA), as of 1 January 2025 of 22 November 2020 Announcement of the usual characters accepted by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (section 7 of the Trade Mark Ordinance) of 11 September 2020 Publication of the readable types of data carriers at the DPMA and the formats for the representation of trade marks (Sec. 6a Trade Mark Ordinance [Markenverordnung]) of 1 January 2020