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Current Statistical Data for Utility Models

At a glance

	2023	2024	Changes in %
Applications (utility model applications at the DPMA and PCT applications after entering the national phase)	9,703	9,577	- 1.3
Registration procedures concluded	9,319	9,921	+ 6.5
- with registration	8,325	9,064	+ 8.9
Utility models in force	67,019	64,009	- 4.5

Filings

Year	New applications	Applications from Germany	Remissions by the Federal Patent Court, allowed appeals, reinstatements	Total
2020	12,313	8,894	15	12,328
2021	10,575	7,028	15	10,590
2022	9,470	5,524	14	9,484
2023	9,703	5,515	9	9,712
2024	9,577	5,234	21	9,598

Procedures concluded

Year	by registration	without registration	Total
2020	10,736	1,496	12,232
2021	9,972	1,363	11,335
2022	8,765	1,082	9,847
2023	8,325	994	9,319
2024	9,064	857	9,921

Utility Models applications by German Länder 2024

GermanLänder	Applications	Percentage	Applications per 100,000 inhabitants
North Rhine-Westphalia	1,419	27.1	8
Bavaria	1,227	23.4	9
Baden-Württemberg	934	17.8	8
Lower Saxony	350	6.7	4
Hesse	304	5.8	5
Rhineland-Palatinate	218	4.2	5
Saxony	151	2.9	4
Berlin	138	2.6	4
Schleswig-Holstein	108	2.1	4
Hamburg	94	1.8	5
Thuringia	89	1.7	4
Brandenburg	71	1.4	3
Saarland	45	0.9	5
Saxony-Anhalt	37	0.7	2
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	31	0.6	2
Bremen	18	0.3	3
Germany	5,234	100	6

TOP 5 Fields of technology ^[1] with most applications in 2024

No.	Field of technology (sector)	Applications in 2023	Applications in 2024	Changes in %
1	Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (electrical engineering)	1,071	1,113	+ 3.9
33	Furniture, games (other fields)	822	912	+ 10.9
35	Civil engineering (other fields)	872	878	+ 0.7
32	Transport (mechanical engineering)	919	865	- 5.9
13	Medical technology (instruments)	598	618	+ 3.3
[1] According to the WIPO IPC-Technology Concordance Table.

Last updated: 16 April 2025