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News - Archive 2025

November 2025

• Background (28.11.2025)
  Ho, ho, ho! Santa Claus & IP - St. Nicolas Day inventions, trade marks and designs
• DPMA & the world (17.11.2025)
  DPMA president Eva Schewior visits EUIPO: ‘For strong trademark rights in a strong Europe’
• Information pages for small and medium-sized enterprises (14.11.2025)
  Poster campaign for Start-up Week Germany 2025
• Notice of the President (13.11.2025)
  of 27 October 2025 concerning the change of the prices of the Blatt für Patent-, Muster- und Zeichenwesen
• Career (10.11.2025)
  We protect what shapes the future: DPMA in the Gallery of Changemakers in IP Examination
• Milestones (07.11.2025)
  130 years ago: Discovery of X-Rays
• Background (06.11.2025)
  100th anniversary of "The Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs"
• Background (04.11.2025)
  Hooray, hooray! Ellis Kaut's 105th birthday

October 2025

• iENA 2025 (31.10.2025)
  iENA 2025: Hooks, eyelets, cardiac catheters
• Press release (30.10.2025)
  The DPMA at the IENA in Nuremberg: Independent inventors are an important part of the innovation system
• Background (28.10.2025)
  Sean Connery died 5 years ago: James Bond, technology and trade marks
• Background (27.10.2025)
  New study: Research institutions and start-ups strengthen Europe's innovative power
• Notice of the President (22.10.2025)
  of 21 October 2025 concerning the opening hours of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office from 24 December 2025 to 1 January 2026
• Background (20.10.2025)
  Halloween & IP: Patents of Horror
• Number of the month (15.10.2025)
  4,473,798 patent applications
• Background (15.10.2025)
  Important contribution to Germany's innovative strength: Every seventh patent has a ‘migration background’
• World og Trade Marks (13.10.2025)
  Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 - When books create brands – and intellectual property rights become visible
• Important note on transfers to the DPMA (13.10.2025)
  When making transfers to the DPMA, please enter only "Bundeskasse" in the recipient field (IBAN: DE84 7000 0000 0070 0010 54). Otherwise, new bank checks may result in error messages.
• Notice of the President (10.10.2025)
  of 25 September 2025 concerning the retention periods for documents of the DPMA
• Milestones (06.10.2025)
  85th birthday: Imagine John Lennon at 85!

September 2025

• Milestones (29.09.2025)
  75 years "Peanuts": Happy birthday, Charlie Brown!
• Press release (25.09.2025)
  Computer and video games: German Patent and Trade Mark Office grants permission to collective management organisation for games industry
• Number of the month (18.09.2025)
  Germany ranks second in digital agriculture
• Sustainability (18.09.2025)
  Promoting climate protection: The DPMA is partner of WIPO GREEN, the international platform for green technologies
• Press release (17.09.2025)
  Sharp vision for millions of people: gentle and highly innovative procedure for eye surgery among the three finalists for the Deutscher Zukunftspreis at the suggestion of the DPMA
• CIGI (17.09.2025)
  Reminder: Financial support available for projects relating to geographical indications – applications must be submitted by 30 September 2025
• Press release (16.09.2025)
  Global Innovation Index: Germany no longer among the top 10 countries
• Milestones (11.09.2025)
  Jimi Hendrix died 55 years ago: The wild guitar god - Innovator, virtuoso, brand
• Milestones (10.09.2025)
  Dieter Rams receives the WDO's 2025 World Design Medal
• CIGI (10.09.2025)
  Financial support available for projects relating to geographical indications – applications must be submitted by 30 September 2025
• Press release (05.09.2025)
  German Patent and Trade Mark Office further expands patent examination in Jena
• Press release (01.09.2025)
  Seven German cities and regions among the world's strongest innovation clusters

August 2025

• Press release (26.08.2025)
  DPMA and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Patentinformationszentren e.V. (PIZnet e.V.) announce PIZnet Action Week in September - Recognising and seizing opportunities arising from patents, utility models, trademarks and designs
• Notice of the President (26.08.2025)
  concerning the publication of the patent and utility model documents, the Patent Gazette, the Trade Mark Journal and the Design Gazette on the official internet platform DPMAregister
• Background (25.08.2025)
  DPMA at Federal Government's Open Day
• Milestones (22.08.2025)
  The fairy tale king of trade marks: Ludwig II's 180th birthday
• Milestones (22.08.2025)
  Died 25 years ago: Carl Barks - he turned a duck into world heritage
• Trade Marks (19.08.2025)
  New protection for craft and industrial products
• Milestones (12.08.2025)
  65 years ago - Rockin' Reeperbahn: The Beatles very first concert
• Background (07.08.2025)
  Clever Utility Models to combat the heat

July 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

June 2025

• 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

May 2025

• 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

April 2025

• 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

March 2025

• 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

February 2025

• 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

January 2025

• 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: 18 December 2025