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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 (recently also to a German IBAN). The scam e-mails are also accompanied by a forged trade mark certificate containing the logo of the DPMA.

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.

November 2024

  • 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 November 2024