Promoting climate protection with WIPO Green The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) is a partner of WIPO GREEN , the international platform for green technologies of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). WIPO GREEN is an online platform for…

Field of action "Products and services" The services and products we offer are of high quality and highly accepted. We operate efficiently. We define valid work processes and ensure their high quality. Defined, consistent and robust business processes are the basis…

Field of actions "Customers" We are in dialogue with our customers and embed their feedback in what we do. We are perceived as qualified, neutral and objective experts in the field of intellectual property. To communicate with our customers, we use, in addition to…

30 years after German reunification The German Patent and Trade Mark Office in Munich, Jena and Berlin This year we are celebrating a special anniversary: 30 years of German unity. It's been a whole generation since reunification of the two German states and yet many…

Carl Zeiss Jena The original sign from the trade mark application of 1904 In cooperation with science On 17 November 1846, Carl Zeiss founded an optical workshop in Jena. Only one year later, he started to build simple microscopes. It soon became clear to the young…

Vita Cola VITA-COLA, registered trade mark EM000632059 The “cola of the East” under the five-year plan Laboratory in Chemische Fabrik Miltitz The history of “VITA COLA” began in 1958, after the GDR government had called for improving the supply of non-alcoholic…

Qualifying Examination After successfully completing your IP training or if you fulfil all the prerequisites for admission as a patent administrator, you can take the patent attorney examination before the DPMA's examination board for patent attorneys. The…

DPMA strategy High-quality services, satisfied customers, motivated staff and successful cooperation projects are of paramount importance to the German Patent and Trade Mark Office. Therefore, we relaunched our strategy process several years ago. In a first step, we…

Field of action "Cooperation projects" We are actively involved in designing a future-oriented IP system at the European and international level. We regularly exchange information and views with other national offices and other international partners. We maintain…

Multicar – all-rounder from Waltershausen Multicar 22 from 1964 It did not start in the garage but in the pub This story begins in the big hall of the pub “Deutscher Hof” in Hörselgau in Thuringia in 1920. There, the Ravensburg-born engineer Arthur Ade, together with…