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July 2025

• Milestones (02.07.2025)
  140 years rabies immunisation: Pasteur, Jenner and the history of vaccination

June 2025

• Background (30.06.2025)
  Women's European Football Championship: Football and Technology - inventions all aroudn the beautiful game
• About us (27.06.2025)
  We fly the rainbow flag
• Ingenious women (25.06.2025)
  75th anniversary of death of Melitta Bentz: The re-invention of coffee
• Number of the month (24.06.2025)
  91 million euros - the value of counterfeit food and drinks seized last year
• SME Fund 2025 (20.06.2025)
  Voucher 3 (patents) currently not available
• Inventor and Innovation Awards (19.06.2025)
  Congratulations to the winners of the Young Inventors Prize 2025!
• Indications of Geographical Origin (11.06.2025)
  EUIPO warning: beware of counterfeit
• Milestones (11.06.2025)
  Bernhard Dräger´s 155th birthday: The re-inventing of breathing
• Milestones (04.06.2025)
  World Oceans Day: Remembering Wilhelm Bauer and the first submarine

May 2025

• Background (28.05.2025)
  World Bicycle Day: An Invention with history - and a lot of future
• Guests at DPMA (15.05.2025)
  DPMA strengthens cooperation with KIPO: DPMA President Eva Schewior and KIPO Commissioner Kim Wan Ki sign agreement in Munich
• Background (14.05.2025)
  ESC - United by music
• Milestones (13.05.2025)
  International Day of Light: 65 years of Laser
• Milestones (09.05.2025)
  90 years parking meter patent: The "penny grave" and its successors
• Milestones (05.05.2025)
  Remembering the end of the Second World War 80 years ago: Enigma - war and cryptography

April 2025

• Number of the month (30.04.2025)
  Voucher 3 (patents) and Voucher 4 (Community plant variety rights) available again from June 2
• Background (29.04.2025)
  Star Wars Day: May the 4th of IP be wiith you!
• Number of the month (29.04.2025)
  A total of 620 patent, utility model, design and trade mark applications for musical instruments at the DPMA in 2024
• Background (25.04.2025)
  World IP Day: DPMA jazz combo plays in Munich city centre
• Notice of the President (25.04.2025)
  concerning the cessation of the filing option for EU designs at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office as from 1 May 2025
• Press release (23.04.2025)
  "Feel the beat of IP": DPMA celebrates World Intellectual Property Day 2025
• Background (17.04.2025)
  World IP Day: Feel the beat of IP
• Milestones (17.04.2025)
  World IP Day: E-Guitar patents and brands - IP´n Guitar
• Background (17.04.2025)
  Easter riddle: How does the Easter bunny lay his eggs?
• User survey (16.04.2025)
  DPMA: Survey on user interests in patent procedure
• Update for DPMAdirektWeb (14.04.2025)
  Subsequent filings for trade mark and design applications now possible without signature
• Milestones (11.04.2025)
  Albert Einstein´s 70th anniversary of death: Patent examiner, inventor, genius

March 2025

• Number of the month (27.03.2025)
  A total of 3,951 dsign applications in 2024
• Milestones (27.03.2025)
  Casanova´s 300th birthday: Seducer and brand
• Press release (24.03.2025)
  DPMAnutzerforum 2025: creating the framework conditions for a catch-up race in new technologies
• Milestones (19.03.2025)
  5th anniversary of death of "Asterix" creator Albert Uderzo: World Heritage with wild boars
• Ingenious women (12.03.2025)
  275th birthday of Caroline Herschel: A woman reaches for the stars
• Press release (12.03.2025)
  DPMA annual figures for 2024: Considerable increase in patent applications from Germany
• "Tuning in with the music of innovation and creativity" (10.03.2025)
  Take part in the ‘World IP Day Youth Video Competition’ and get the chance to win great prizes! The closing date for entries is March 16.
• Ingenious women (07.03.2025)
  International Women’s Day 2025: For ALL Women and Girls — Rights. Equality. Empowerment.
• Apollo´s women (05.03.2025)
  They broght man on the moon

February 2025

• Important notice (20.02.2025)
  Entry into force of the 15th edition of the Locarno Classification (classification for registered designs)
• About us - organisation (13.02.2025)
  Key positions filled: new Heads of two Directorates General at the DPMA
• About us (10.02.2025)
  International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Explaining electrolysis simply - nothing could be easier
• Milestones (10.02.2025)
  25th anniversary of death of "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz: What have we earned, Charlie Brown?
• Information pages for SME (03.02.2025)
  SME Fund 2025 launched: The European funding programme supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in protecting their intellectual property. Find out more in the EUIPO webinar on 18 February
• Information pages for small and medium-sized enterprises (03.02.2025)
  Fight against cancer: Germany leads Europe in cancer-related technologies

January 2025

• Register for the DPMAnutzerforum now (29.01.2025)
  Leap innovations, AI and Digital Services Act
• Milestones (28.01.2025)
  Bob Marley´s 80th birthday: "Tuff Gong´s" heirs and brands
• Number of the month (20.01.2025)
  Three million electronic submissions
• Ingenious women (15.01.2025)
  25th anniversary of the death of Hedy Lamarr: "Lady Bluetooth" - The inventive Hollywood star
• Brands with history (14.01.2025)
  Elfie Donnelly: The inventor of Benjamin Blümchen and Bibi Blocksberg turns 75 years young
• Milestones (09.01.2025)
  140 years ago: Patent for the ‘Nipkow disc’. A poor student becomes a pioneer of television
• Important Notice (02.01.2025)
  to the "Version 2025" of the 12th edition of the Nice International Classification
• Brands with history (02.01.2025)
  50 years Little Blue Elephant!

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Last updated: 2 July 2025