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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.

July 2025

  • Press release (15.07.2025)
    'Further strengthening the DPMA's expertise': Federal Minister of Justice Dr Stefanie Hubig emphasises the importance of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office during her inaugural visit to Munich
  • Press release (14.07.2025)
    DPMA at WIPO General assembly: Artificial intelligence, examiner exchange and IT cooperation
  • Milestones (14.07.2025)
    The fairy tale king of trade marks: Ludwig II´s castles are World Heritage sites now!
  • Presse release (08.07.2025)
    Enjoy your vacation — say no to fakes!
  • 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 around 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
  • Search - Find - Protect (20.06.2025)
    ECTA Annual Conference in Berlin
  • 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!
  • Search - Find - Protect (16.06.2025)
    DPMA President Eva Schewior at the Enforcement Summit 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

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Last updated: 15 July 2025