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Caution: Fraudulent requests for payment by e-mail!
Fraudulent requests for payment circulated again! In contrast to previous cases of fraud, trade mark applicants were contacted by e-mail. The e-mails sent in the name of the Office management of the DPMA request the recipients to transfer allegedly due application fees (up into the four-digit range) to foreign accounts. The scam e-mails are also accompanied by a forged trade mark certificate containing the logo of the DPMA and an imitation signature of the office management.
The DPMA expressly points out that these e-mails are not related to the Office. The Office does not send invoices or requests for payment - neither for the application or renewal of IP rights nor for their publication in the official registers.
December 2023
- Background (04.12.2023)
Christmas time and IP: Santa Claus patents, designs and trade marks - Events (04.12.2023)
DPMAnutzerforum 2024 - Press release (01.12.2023)
Dr Maria Skottke-Klein is new Vice-President of the DPMA
November 2023
- Milestones (29.11.2023)
Creator of "Silent night, holy night": Joseph Mohr died 175 years ago - Women in IP - Rostock (22.11.2023)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is the state of female founders - SMEs - Information pages for small and medium-sized enterprises (21.11.2023)
Grant applications for the EUIPO's SME Fund can currently only be accepted for a prior art search in connection with a planned patent application, for a patent application and/or for an EU plant variety application - Milestones (20.11.2023)
100th birthday of "Lucky Luke" inventor: Morris and the man who draws faster than his shadow - Notice of the President of the German Patent- and Trade Mark Office (17.11.2023)
on the occasion of the current situation in Israel and Gaza - World of Design (07.11.2023)
Cozy November - Milestones (06.11.2023)
100th birthday: Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit - Notice of the president (02.11.2023)
concerning the opening hours of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office from 24 December 2023 to 1 January 2024
October 2023
- Number of the month (31.10.2023)
Issues of BlPMZ from 1894 to October 2023 - Background (25.10.2023)
Patents of horror: Halloween and IP - Background (17.10.2023)
Reaching for the stars: 100 years projection planetarium - Milestones (11.10.2023)
100 years Disney: Of mice and men and money - World of Design (10.10.2023)
Who turned the clock? - 50 Years of the European Patent Convention (05.10.2023)
DPMA President congratulates on European success story - Milestones (02.10.2023)
Terrific "tortoise": The Citroen 2CV turns 75
September 2023
- Press Release (27.09.2023)
Germany ranks 8th in World Intellectual Property Organization‘s list of most innovative states – DPMA President: innovation system is stable, productive and efficient, yet there are risks due to digitisation deficit - Women in IP (26.09.2023)
Aachen - Milestones (22.09.2023)
95 years Penicillin: Blunting wonder weapon - Events (18.09.2023)
How to benefit from patents, trade marks and other IP rights: Nationwide PIZnet action week with free consultations on dealing with industrial property rights starts today - World of Design (12.09.2023)
It barks and meows through the design register - Milestones (06.09.2023)
65 years ago: The 'big bang' of microelectronics - The very first Integrated Circuit - DesignEuropa Awards 2023 (05.09.2023)
Integrated electric outboard motor, fully automatic espresso coffee machine and a woman who changed the world
International registrations of marks: Contact with WIPO will only be possible by electronic means
From 1 February 2023, contact with the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva will have to take place electronically. This concerns communications both to and from WIPO. As a result, applicants for and holders of international registrations of marks and their representatives must have provided their e-mail addresses to WIPO. If they have not yet done so, they should provide an e-mail address to WIPO as soon as possible - to oneemailformadrid@wipo.int.
Further information is available in 
WIPO Madrid Information Notice No. 19 of 11 May 2022 concerning amendments to the Administrative Instructions.
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Last updated: 5 December 2023
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