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Caution: Fraudulent requests for payment by e-mail!

Fraudulent requests for payment circulated again! In contrast to previous cases of fraud, trade mark applicants were contacted by e-mail. The e-mails sent in the name of the Office management of the DPMA request the recipients to transfer allegedly due application fees (up into the four-digit range) to foreign accounts (recently also to a German IBAN). The scam e-mails are also accompanied by a forged trade mark certificate containing the logo of the DPMA.

The DPMA expressly points out that these e-mails are not related to the Office. The Office does not send invoices or requests for payment - neither for the application or renewal of IP rights nor for their publication in the official registers.

September 2025

  • Press release (01.09.2025)
    Global Innovation Index: Germany no longer among the top 10 countries
  • Milestones (11.09.2025)
    Jimi Hendrix died 55 years ago: The wild guitar god - Innovator, virtuoso, brand
  • Milestones (10.09.2025)
    Dieter Rams receives the WDO's 2025 World Design Medal
  • CIGI (10.09.2025)
    Financial support available for projects relating to geographical indications – applications must be submitted by 30 September 2025
  • Press release (05.09.2025)
    German Patent and Trade Mark Office further expands patent examination in Jena
  • Press release (01.09.2025)
    Seven German cities and regions among the world's strongest innovation clusters

August 2025

  • Press release (26.08.2025)
    DPMA and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Patentinformationszentren e.V. (PIZnet e.V.) announce PIZnet Action Week in September - Recognising and seizing opportunities arising from patents, utility models, trademarks and designs
  • Notice of the President (26.08.2025)
    concerning the publication of the patent and utility model documents, the Patent Gazette, the Trade Mark Journal and the Design Gazette on the official internet platform DPMAregister
  • Background (25.08.2025)
    DPMA at Federal Government's Open Day
  • Milestones (22.08.2025)
    The fairy tale king of trade marks: Ludwig II's 180th birthday
  • Milestones (22.08.2025)
    Died 25 years ago: Carl Barks - he turned a duck into world heritage
  • Trade Marks (19.08.2025)
    New protection for craft and industrial products
  • Milestones (12.08.2025)
    65 years ago - Rockin' Reeperbahn: The Beatles very first concert
  • Background (07.08.2025)
    Clever Utility Models to combat the heat

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Last updated: 16 September 2025