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News from the DPMA

Inventiveness and creativity need effective protection. The DPMA is the German centre of expertise for all intellectual property rights - for patents, utility models, trade marks and registered designs. As the largest national patent office in Europe and the fifth largest national patent office in the world, it is committed to Germany's future as a country of inventors in a globalised economy.

Here you will find our current press releases and the archive of earlier press releases.
Not all press releases are available in English. Here you will find an overview of the press releases in German.

10 March 2026

  • DPMA annual figures for 2025: considerable increase in inventions

02 February 2026

  • SME Fund 2026: EU funding program for small and medium-sized enterprises relaunched

16 January 2026

  • Porcelain, cuckoo clocks, knives: new protection for regional products

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Last updated: 10 December 2025