News - Archive 2025

Number of the month (30.07.2025)
More than 40 IP applications per minute worldwide
Background (29.07.2025)
IP on the beach: The Strandkorb - beloved beach fortress
Milestones (22.07.2025)
155 years Tower Subway: The tunnel under the Thames
Background (22.07.2025)
Day of Industrial property rights 2025 in Stuttgart: Impulses for IP protection and a national IP strategy
Ingenious women (22.07.2025)
90th anniversary of death of Käthe Paulus: Parachute pioneer
Ingenious women (21.07.2025)
Rosalind Franklin´s 105th birthday: Cheated out of world fame?
Press release (15.07.2025)
'Further strengthening the DPMA's expertise': Federal Minister of Justice Dr Stefanie Hubig emphasises the importance of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office during her inaugural visit to Munich
Press release (14.07.2025)
DPMA at WIPO General assembly: Artificial intelligence, examiner exchange and IT cooperation
Milestones (14.07.2025)
The fairy tale king of trade marks: Ludwig II´s castles are World Heritage sites now!
Presse release (08.07.2025)
Enjoy your vacation — say no to fakes!
Milestones (02.07.2025)
140 years rabies immunisation: Pasteur, Jenner and the history of vaccination

Background (30.06.2025)
Women's European Football Championship: Football and Technology - inventions all around the beautiful game
About us (27.06.2025)
We fly the rainbow flag
Ingenious women (25.06.2025)
75th anniversary of death of Melitta Bentz: The re-invention of coffee
Number of the month (24.06.2025)
91 million euros - the value of counterfeit food and drinks seized last year
Search - Find - Protect (20.06.2025)
ECTA Annual Conference in Berlin
SME Fund 2025 (20.06.2025)
Voucher 3 (patents) currently not available
Inventor and Innovation Awards (19.06.2025)
Congratulations to the winners of the Young Inventors Prize 2025!
Search - Find - Protect (16.06.2025)
DPMA President Eva Schewior at the Enforcement Summit 2025
EUIPO "What's on the table?" campaign warns - Beware of counterfeit food (11.06.2025)
To mark World Counterfeiting Day, the European Union Intellectual Property Office is drawing attention to the growing threat of counterfeit food and drink. Recent reports show that counterfeiting in the food and drink sector poses significant risks to consumer health, as well as damaging the European economy and Europe's culinary heritage. Find out more on the EUIPO Website.
Milestones (11.06.2025)
Bernhard Dräger's 155th birthday: The re-inventing of breathing
Milestones (04.06.2025)
World Oceans Day: Remembering Wilhelm Bauer and the first submarine

Background (28.05.2025)
World Bicycle Day: An Invention with history - and a lot of future
Guests at DPMA (15.05.2025)
DPMA strengthens cooperation with KIPO: DPMA President Eva Schewior and KIPO Commissioner Kim Wan Ki sign agreement in Munich
Background (14.05.2025)
ESC - United by music
Milestones (13.05.2025)
International Day of Light: 65 years of Laser
Milestones (09.05.2025)
90 years parking meter patent: The "penny grave" and its successors
Milestones (05.05.2025)
Remembering the end of the Second World War 80 years ago: Enigma - war and cryptography

Number of the month (30.04.2025)
Voucher 3 (patents) and Voucher 4 (Community plant variety rights) available again from June 2
Background (29.04.2025)
Star Wars Day: May the 4th of IP be wiith you!
Number of the month (29.04.2025)
A total of 620 patent, utility model, design and trade mark applications for musical instruments at the DPMA in 2024
Background (25.04.2025)
World IP Day: DPMA jazz combo plays in Munich city centre
Notice of the President (25.04.2025)
concerning the cessation of the filing option for EU designs at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office as from 1 May 2025
Press release (23.04.2025)
"Feel the beat of IP": DPMA celebrates World Intellectual Property Day 2025
Background (17.04.2025)
World IP Day: Feel the beat of IP
Milestones (17.04.2025)
World IP Day: E-Guitar patents and brands - IP´n Guitar
Background (17.04.2025)
Easter riddle: How does the Easter bunny lay his eggs?
User survey (16.04.2025)
DPMA: Survey on user interests in patent procedure
Update for DPMAdirektWeb (14.04.2025)
Subsequent filings for trade mark and design applications now possible without signature
Milestones (11.04.2025)
Albert Einstein´s 70th anniversary of death: Patent examiner, inventor, genius

Number of the month (27.03.2025)
A total of 3,951 dsign applications in 2024
Milestones (27.03.2025)
Casanova´s 300th birthday: Seducer and brand
Press release (24.03.2025)
DPMAnutzerforum 2025: creating the framework conditions for a catch-up race in new technologies
Milestones (19.03.2025)
5th anniversary of death of "Asterix" creator Albert Uderzo: World Heritage with wild boars
Ingenious women (12.03.2025)
275th birthday of Caroline Herschel: A woman reaches for the stars
Press release (12.03.2025)
DPMA annual figures for 2024: Considerable increase in patent applications from Germany
"Tuning in with the music of innovation and creativity" (10.03.2025)
Take part in the ‘World IP Day Youth Video Competition’ and get the chance to win great prizes! The closing date for entries is March 16.
Ingenious women (07.03.2025)
International Women’s Day 2025: For ALL Women and Girls — Rights. Equality. Empowerment.
Apollo´s women (05.03.2025)
They broght man on the moon

Important notice (20.02.2025)
Entry into force of the 15th edition of the Locarno Classification (classification for registered designs)
About us - organisation (13.02.2025)
Key positions filled: new Heads of two Directorates General at the DPMA
About us (10.02.2025)
International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Explaining electrolysis simply - nothing could be easier
Milestones (10.02.2025)
25th anniversary of death of "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz: What have we earned, Charlie Brown?
Information pages for SME (03.02.2025)
SME Fund 2025 launched: The European funding programme supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in protecting their intellectual property. Find out more in the EUIPO webinar on 18 February
Information pages for small and medium-sized enterprises (03.02.2025)
Fight against cancer: Germany leads Europe in cancer-related technologies

Register for the DPMAnutzerforum now (29.01.2025)
Leap innovations, AI and Digital Services Act
Milestones (28.01.2025)
Bob Marley´s 80th birthday: "Tuff Gong´s" heirs and brands
Number of the month (20.01.2025)
Three million electronic submissions
Ingenious women (15.01.2025)
25th anniversary of the death of Hedy Lamarr: "Lady Bluetooth" - The inventive Hollywood star
Brands with history (14.01.2025)
Elfie Donnelly: The inventor of Benjamin Blümchen and Bibi Blocksberg turns 75 years young
Milestones (09.01.2025)
140 years ago: Patent for the ‘Nipkow disc’. A poor student becomes a pioneer of television
Important Notice (02.01.2025)
to the "Version 2025" of the 12th edition of the Nice International Classification
Brands with history (02.01.2025)
50 years Little Blue Elephant!

Last updated: 5 September 2025

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