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Our locations are

Munich	Jena	Berlin

Service section	Phone number	E-mail
Central Customer Care and Services	+49 89 2195-1000	info@dpma.de Please note: Submissions for IP procedures cannot be made by e-mail.
Hotline for Database Users	+49 89 2195-3435	datenbanken@dpma.de

Postal address and fax DPMA Munich

Mailing address	Fax number	Communications
Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt 80297 München	+49 89 2195-2221	- Applications for patents and utility models plus communications concerning pending procedures - Trade mark applications and communications for pending trade mark procedures - Communications for pending design procedures; It is not admissible to file design applications and representations by fax. - Enquiries and other

How to submit legally valid applications for intellectual property rights

Please do not send us your property rights application (patent, trademark, utility model or design application) by e-mail, as submissions by e-mail are not legally valid according to legal requirements.

Legally valid procedural actions, such as applications, requests and submissions, can be made

• electronically via DPMAdirektPro and DPMAdirektWeb as well as
• by post or fax.
• You can also drop by in person in Munich, Jena and Berlin to submit your application documents.

How to reach our other service areas

Service section	Phone number	E-mail
DPMAdirekt Hotline for E-Filing		DPMAdirekt@dpma.de
Press and Public Relations	+49 89 2195-3222	presse@dpma.de
Arbitration Board under the Employee Inventions Act	+49 89 2195-3943 +49 89 2195-3936	info@dpma.de
Arbitration Board under the Act on Collective Management Organisations (CMO Act)	+49 89 2195-2673	info@dpma.de

How to contact our administrative departments

For administrative matters, you can also contact the DPMA via the special authority mailbox (beBPO) as part of the infrastructure of the electronic court and administration mailbox (EGVP). Please note that neither property right-related submissions (patents and utility models, trade marks, designs) nor submissions relating to the proceedings of the DPMA's arbitration boards can be submitted via these access points. The same applies to proceedings under the Collecting Societies Act.

Service section	Phone number	E-mail
Zentraler Rechnungseingang DPMA Invoices to the DPMA		ZRE@dpma.de
Invoices to the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) must always be submitted via the Federal Online Access Act-compliant Invoice Submission Portal (OZG-RE), quoting the DPMA's routing ID 991-03083-20. (does not apply to the payment of fees and costs relating to IP matters or arbitration boards)
You can reach the Federal OZG-RE support hotline Mon. - Fri. from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.	+49 030 2598-4436	sendersupport-xrechnung@bdr.de

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Last updated: 8 July 2026