Patent offices offer a ‘showcase’ for green innovations DPMA analysis: Patent applications for recycling valuable materials from waste have tripled in ten years – Offices around the world want to help environmentally and climate-friendly innovations achieve economic…

Gift Responsibly: Say No to Fakes! From children's toys and cosmetics to e-cigarettes: DPMA President Eva Schewior urges caution against counterfeit products during the Christmas shopping season – Counterfeit goods cause billions in damages, cost jobs and are…

Protecting innovation is a ‘key issue for our industrial location’ DPMA President Eva Schewior opens DPMAimpuls DPMAimpuls dialogue format: DPMA discusses Germany's innovation landscape with experts from industry, academia and the judiciary in Munich – Close exchange…

Computer and video games: German Patent and Trade Mark Office grants permission to collective management organisation for games industry Verwertungsgesellschaft für die Hersteller von Games mbH (VHG) receives permission to operate – Remuneration by device…

Press releases 2025 11 December 2025 Gift Responsibly: Say No to Fakes! 19 November 2025 Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2025: DPMA President congratulates Robert Bosch GmbH team 17 November 2025 Protecting innovation is a ‘key issue for our industrial location’ 30 October…

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DPMA annual figures for 2025: considerable increase in inventions Significant increase in innovative activity concerning digital technologies and electric mobility – automotive industry remained the strongest sector – booming demand for trade mark protection, in part…

Porcelain, cuckoo clocks, knives: new protection for regional products Producers of craft and industrial products now have the option to seek Europe-wide protection through a geographical indication at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office – DPMA President:…

Utility Model Protection Further topics Protectability Protection Requirements The difference between utility model and patent Utility models are unexamined IP rights . During the registration procedure, there is no examination as to novelty, inventive step und…

Registration Procedure Application, and then? You will receive an acknowledgement containing the date of filing as well as the file number. Within three months from filing the application, the application fee must have been received by the DPMA; otherwise, the…