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Here you can contact the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) directly to submit your requests, questions, or comments.

We recommend using our contact form to send us your request quickly and easily.

Important notice

Please understand that the DPMA is not permitted to offer individual legal advice and cannot represent you in personal legal matters. For such matters, please contact a patent attorney, a lawyer, or another person authorized to provide legal advice.

We expect respectful interaction when using our services. We will not respond to inquiries that contain insults, vulgar language, or statements that dehumanize others. We do not tolerate racist remarks or anti-semitic comments, nor do we tolerate attempts to relativize or trivialize the Holocaust and the Shoah. We reserve the right to end the conversation with you or to decline to respond to your inquiry. In addition, illegal content, such as statements inciting hatred or Holocaust denial, will be reported to the authorities.

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Mondays to Thursdays from 8.00 am to 4.00 pm and Fridays from 8.00 am to 2.00 pm; on-site visits by appointment only.

Central Customer Care and Services

Phone number:+49 89 2195-1000

E-mail:

Please note: Submissions for IP procedures cannot be made by e-mail.

Hotline for Database Users

Phone number: +49 89 2195-3435

E-mail:

Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt

80297 München

Fax number: +49 89 2195-2221

Communications:

  • Applications for patents and utility models plus communications concerning pending procedures 
  • Trade mark applications and communications for pending trade mark procedures 
  • Communications for pending design procedures; It is not admissible to file design applications and representations by fax. 
  • Enquiries and other

How to submit legally valid applications for intellectual property rights

Please do not send us your property rights application (patent, trademark, utility model or design application) by e-mail, as submissions by e-mail are not legally valid according to legal requirements.

Legally valid procedural actions, such as applications, requests and submissions, can be made

  • electronically via DPMAdirektPro and DPMAdirektWeb as well as
  • by post or fax.
  • You can also drop by in person in Munich, Jena and Berlin to submit your application documents.

How to reach our other service areas

DPMAdirekt Hotline for E-Filing

E-Mail:

Press and Public Relations

Phone number:+49 89 2195-3222

E-Mail:

Arbitration Board under the Employee Inventions Act

Phone number: +49 89 2195-3943 / +49 89 2195-3936

E-Mail:

Arbitration Board under the Act on Collective Management Organisations (CMO Act)

Phone number: +49 89 2195-2673

E-Mail:

How to contact our administrative departments

For administrative matters, you can also contact the DPMA via the special authority mailbox (beBPO) as part of the infrastructure of the electronic court and administration mailbox (EGVP). Please note that neither property right-related submissions (patents and utility models, trade marks, designs) nor submissions relating to the proceedings of the DPMA's arbitration boards can be submitted via these access points. The same applies to proceedings under the Collecting Societies Act.

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Invoices to the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) must always be submitted via the Federal Online Access Act-compliant Invoice Submission Portal (OZG-RE), quoting the DPMA's routing ID 991-03083-20. (does not apply to the payment of fees and costs relating to IP matters or arbitration boards)

Federal OZG-RE support hotline

Phone number: +49 30 2598-4436
You can reach the Federal OZG-RE support hotline Mon. - Fri. from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

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