Content

Current Statistical Data for Utility Models

At a glance

	2024	2025	Changes in %
Applications (utility model applications at the DPMA and PCT applications after entering the national phase)	9,576	11,427	+ 19.3
Registration procedures concluded	9,923	10,838	+ 9.2
- with registration	9,064	9,750	+ 7.6
Utility models in force	64,010	62,944	- 1.7

Filings

Year	New applications	Applications from Germany	Remissions by the Federal Patent Court, allowed appeals, reinstatements	Total
2021	10,575	7,028	15	10,590
2022	9,470	5,524	14	9,484
2023	9,703	5,516	9	9,712
2024	9,576	5,243	22	9,598
2025	11,427	6,264	19	11,446

Procedures concluded

Year	by registration	without registration	Total
2021	9,972	1,363	11,335
2022	8,765	1,082	9,847
2023	8,325	994	9,319
2024	9,064	859	9,923
2025	9,750	1,088	10,838

Utility Models applications by German Länder 2025

GermanLänder	Applications	Percentage	Applications per 100,000 inhabitants
North Rhine-Westphalia	1,616	25.8	9
Bavaria	1,280	20.4	10
Baden-Württemberg	1,158	18.5	10
Hesse	491	7.8	8
Lower Saxony	434	6.9	5
Rhineland-Palatinate	276	4.4	7
Berlin	226	3.6	6
Saxony	185	3.0	5
Schleswig-Holstein	146	2.3	5
Hamburg	122	1.9	7
Brandenburg	97	1.5	4
Thuringia	73	1.2	3
Saxony-Anhalt	55	0.9	3
Saarland	44	0.7	4
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	41	0.7	3
Bremen	20	0.3	3
Germany	6,264	100	7

TOP 5 Fields of technology ^[1] with most applications in 2025

No.	Field of technology (sector)	Applications in 2024	Applications in 2025	Changes in %
1	Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (electrical engineering)	1,125	1,480	+ 31.6
33	Furniture, games (other fields)	916	1,036	+ 13.1
35	Civil engineering (other fields)	888	896	+ 0.9
32	Transport (mechanical engineering)	875	896	+ 2.4
13	Medical technology (instruments)	619	705	+ 13.9
[1] According to the WIPO IPC-Technology Concordance Table.

Last updated: 25 February 2026