Invalidity Proceedings Invalidity proceedings before the DPMA During the registration procedure before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), only the formal requirements and a few substantive requirements for design protection are examined, namely the…
Designs Today, the design of a product plays a considerable role in the buying decision. It provides impetus and sparks emotions. Since functional differences between products have become fewer and life cycles shorter, the visual appearance of a product is often the…
IP Search Whether you are planning an application yourself, looking for technical solutions to specific problems, require information about a particular business's patent portfolio, want to avoid breaching third-party IP rights, or have other queries - the DPMA…
Protect How to protect your intellectual property Would you like to protect a technical invention, a name, your logo, a product design or your handcrafted product? Then the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) is the right place for you. On the following pages,…
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Forms and other documents for Patents Please note: Links may not work temporarily Due to the migration of the DPMA website to a new content management system on 10 November 2026, all URLs and links to internal media (documents, videos) have changed. The official…
Other forms and documents Please note: Links may not work temporarily Due to the migration of the DPMA website to a new content management system on 10 November 2026, all URLs and links to internal media (documents, videos) have changed. The official forms provided…
Die Inhalte der DPMA-Internetseite im Überblick Was ist wo zu finden? Willkommen auf der Internetseite des Deutschen Patent- und Markenamts, kurz DPMA. In diesem Video zeigen wir Ihnen, welche Inhalte Sie auf unserer Internetseite finden und wie Sie sich schnell…
News Overview of current issues November 2026 10.11.2026 | Some links in forms are not working Following the migration of our website to a new content management system, all URLs and links to internal media (documents, videos) have changed. 05.11.2026 | SME Fund 2026…