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March 2021
- 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
February 2021
- 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.
January 2021
- 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
December 2020
- 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