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Press release (05.03.2021)
Strong DPMA performance 2020 figures in spite of pandemic: Trade mark boom during lockdown
Milestones (04.03.2021)
50 years of "Sendung mit der Maus“: Googly-eyed inspirer

Important Notice (24.02.2021)
Longer processing times in trade mark procedures
Notice of the President No. 2/21 (22.02.2021)
Updated design forms as of 1 March 2021
Number of the month February (18.02.2021)
7.6 billion euros - annual damage caused by product piracy
Background (10.02.2021)
Valentine’s Day: Brands and Love
Career (05.02.2021)
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Milestones (05.02.2021)
175th birthday: Wilhelm Maybach - The father of the modern automobile
Patent Attorney Examination (02.02.2021)
Note on examination dates of patent attorney examination I/2021 postponed due to pandemic - DPMA announces new Dates
The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) will soon hold the delayed patent attorney examination I/2021, which was scheduled for early February 2021 and postponed due to the pandemic. The examination will now take place from 22 to 25 March 2021 (written part) and from 3 to 12 May 2021 (oral part). The examination is subject to a fundamentally positive development of the pandemic situation.

Milestones (25.01.2021)
70th aniversary of death: Ferdinand Porsche - the engineer and his century
Important notice (21.01.2021)
Chinese and German offices extend Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot
Legal Representative (18.01.2021)
Power of representation of British patent attorneys and lawyers ceased
DPMAnutzerforum 2021 (18.01.2021)
Online registration started
Split-off from a patent application (14.01.2021)
Quick protection for your invention
Ingenious women (06.01.2021)
Coco Chanel - the designer of the century
Important Notice (05.01.2021)
Patent Information Centre Kassel has ceased its business activities
Important Notices (04.01.2021)
Notices of 1 January 2021 concerning the Nice Classification and the Locarno Classification

Notice of the President of the DPMA (22.12.2020)
Notice of the President of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office of 8 December 2020 concerning the amount of provision costs for the supply of machine-readable data
Information for small and medium-sized enterprises (18.12.2020)
Up to 1,500 EUR grant for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for consultancy on and registration of intellectual property rights
Press release (17.12.2020)
Open to good ideas – InnoWi becomes an official patent and trade mark centre in the federal Land of Bremen
Milestones (17.12.2020)
Konrad Zuse died 25 years ago: Technology history made from the living room
Misleading Requests for Payment (16.12.2020)
Beware of nasty Christmas surprises
Milestones (14/12/2020)
Beethoven´s 250th birthday: The grumpy, deaf genius
Ingenious women (04/12/2020)
Gene scissors, Black Holes & poetry: Four women get Nobel Prizes 2020
Background (04/12/2020)
Santa patents, brands, designs: Christmas time and IP
Publications (02/12/2020)
Updated brochures on DPMAregister, E-services, Trademark search and Design search

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Last updated: 5 March 2021