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You can reach our customer service staff by telephone and e-mail at:

Service section	Phone number	E-mail
Central Customer Care and Services	+49 89 2195-1000	info@dpma.de Please note: Submissions for IP procedures cannot be made by e-mail.
Hotline for Database Users	+49 89 2195-3435	datenbanken@dpma.de

For general information, questions on industrial property rights or information on your IP applications, please contact our Central Customer Service. If necessary, we will be happy to refer you to the relevant departments within our company. Please note that Customer Service is not permitted to offer legal advice.

Opening hours and services for visitors

The opening hours and contact details for making appointments in the service areas as well as an overview of public holidays can be found under Opening hours.

Service section	Phone number	E-mail
Online search support via "Webex"	+49 89 2195-1000	Notice of online search support
DPMAdirekt Hotline for E-Filing		DPMAdirekt@dpma.de
Press and Public Relations	+49 89 2195-3222	presse@dpma.de
Arbitration Board under the Employee Inventions Act	+49 89 2195-3943 +49 89 2195-3936	info@dpma.de
Arbitration Board under the Act on Collective Management Organisations (CMO Act)	+49 89 2195-2673	info@dpma.de
Zentraler Rechnungseingang DPMA Invoices to the DPMA		ZRE@dpma.de
Invoices to the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) must always be submitted via the Federal Central Invoice Submission Platform (ZRE), 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)
You can reach the ZRE Bund support hotline Mon. - Fri. from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.	+49 030 2598-4436	sendersupport-xrechnung@bdr.de
Enquiries to the Jena Sub-Office (delivery of goods, etc.)	+49 3641 40-5700

In administrative matters, you can also contact the DPMA via the De-Mail address “info@dpma.de-mail.de” and via the special public authority mailbox (beBPO) as part of the infrastructure of the electronic court and administrative mailbox (EGVP). Please note that neither IP-related submissions (patents and utility models, trade marks, designs) nor submissions to the proceedings of the arbitration boards of the DPMA can be filed via these access points. The same applies to proceedings under the Collecting Societies Act.

Please note that procedural acts such as applications, requests, communications concerning proceedings of the Arbitration Boards at the DPMA and under the CMO Act (Verwertungsgesellschaftengesetz) cannot be submitted via e-mail; submission is only admitted by post, fax, using the DPMAdirektPro software, or in person to be legally valid.

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Last updated: 20 February 2025