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Season's greetings

The German Patent and Trade Mark Office wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.

We will be closed between December 24, 2024 and January 1, 2025 (see notice no. 3/24). The DPMAdirekt (Pro und Web) services for electronic applications and DPMAregister will be available during the office closure. See you on January 2, 2025, hopefully a little recovered and with "fresh ideas".

Your German Patent and Trade Mark Office

Overview of current issues

December 2024

• Ingenious women (20.12.2024)
  Ice cream for everyone! 230th birthday of inventor Nancy M. Johnson
• Milestones (19.12.2024)
  An invention that takes you to the top: 90 years ski lift with T-bar
• Number of the month (17.12.2024)
  Eleven percent of all network-related international patent families come from Germany
• Notice of the President (13.12.2024)
  concerning the termination of the option to file via eOLF as of 1 January 2025
• Milestones (13.12.2024)
  When the going gets Duff: Ay, caramba! 35 years "The Simpsons"!
• Information pages for small and medium-sized enterprises (12.12.2024)
  Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
• Notices of the President (12.12.2024)
  concerning the opening hours of the Munich office of DPMA on 4 March 2025 (Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras) and concerning the amount of the provision costs for the supply of machine-readable data in 2025
• Save the date - DPMAnutzerforum 2025 (10.12.2024)
  Leap innovations, AI and Digital Services Act
• SME (02.12.2024)
  Joint study by the DPMA and WIPO on the use and perception of intellectual property by small and medium-sized enterprises in innovative industries
• Background (02.12.2024)
  Festive IP: Santa´s patents, brands & designs

November 2024

• Number of the month (28.11.2024)
  24.1 per cent of all academic patents in Europe originate from Germany
• Indications of Geographical Origin (27.11.2024)
  The EU is extending the protection of Indications of Geographical Origin to industrial and artisanal products. Previously, this only applied to wines, spirits and agricultural products.
• Background (26.11.2024)
  Joint EUIPO-Europol report exposes far-reaching consequences of IP crime in Europe
• Notice of the President (25.11.2024)
  regarding the participation of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in the service WIPO DAS as Depositing Office
• Search (19.11.2024)
  Upgrade of IPC research is now online
• Milestones (15.11.2024)
  Enrico Fermi died 70 years ago: The man who knew everything
• Search (07.11.2024)
  IPCneu launches on November 19: Improved functions and new user interface for more efficient searches
• Important Notice (06.11.2024)
  The DPMA will cease to accept electronic applications filed using the EPO tool eOLF at the end of the year
• Cooperation (07.11.2024)
  DPMA User Advisory Council: DPMA takes positive stock of the 2nd appointment period of its central advisory body
• Ingenious women (05.11.2024)
  Hedy Lamarr´s 110th birthday: Inventive femme fatale

October 2024

• Obituary (31.10.2024)
  On the death of Norbert Haugg, DPMA President form 1995 to 2000
• Notice of the President (24.10.2024)
  concerning the opening hours of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office from 24 December 2024 to 1 January 2025
• Background (17.10.2024)
  Halloween and IP: Patents of horror
• Milestones (15.10.2024)
  In the video: 130 years of the brand - how it all began
• Background (10.10.2024)
  The DPMA congratulates on 5 years of SPRIND: Interview with Rafael Laguna de la Vera and Berit Dannenberg - our new Gründerzeit
• Notice of the President (04.10.2024)
  Publication of the patent and utility model documents, the Patent Gazette (Patentblatt), the Trade Mark Journal (Markenblatt) and the Design Gazette (Designblatt) on the official internet platform DPMAregister at the end of 2024 and in 2025
• Guests at DPMA (04.10.2024)
  Collegial exchange and plans for cooperation: DPMA President meets CEO of the Saudi Arabian Intellectual Property Authority

September 2024

• History (30.09.2024)
  75 years DPMA in Bavaria: How Munich became the center of IP rights
• Milestones (27.09.2024)
  László Biró´s 125th birthday: The man with the pen
• Milestones (20.09.2024)
  Design Europa Awards 2024: Lifetime Achievement Award for Dieter Rams
• Background (17.09.2024)
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: AI as a challenge for international IP Offices
• Background (12.09.2024)
  Reinhold Messner´s 80th birthday: Mountains, museums and the meaning of life
• Press release (11.09.2024)
  President of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) recognises the three teams nominated for the Federal President’s Deutscher Zukunftspreis – DPMA proposal among the finalists
• Maintenance work (04.09.2024)
  Due to maintenance work on the Internet lines, the external services of the DPMA are temporarily unavailable. From 04/09/2024, 22:00 to 05/09/2024, 05:00, access to the online services is not possible. We ask for your understanding.
• Background (03.09.2024)
  75 years ago: The "invention" of the Currywurst

August 2024

• Number of the month (13.08.2024)
  RG 28, mopeds from Suhl, "Erika" and many other design classics
• Inventor and Innovation Awards (09.08.2024)
  Call for applications for the European Women Innovators Award 2025 launched: Apply by 25 September 2024
• Notice of the President (09.08.2024)
  Implementation of Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1745 of 24 June 2024 amending Regulation (EU) No 833/2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine with respect to procedures before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office
• From the world of design (06.08.2024)
  Seating furniture for outdoors or indoors

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Last updated: 20 December 2024