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Patents and intellectual property

So that innovations can become established on markets and maintain their position: Do you want to protect your invention? Intellectual property needs to be protected effectively – nationally and especially internationally. You will find information and contacts here.

There are 11 services for Patents and intellectual property

  • Apply for Plant Variety Protection

    You can apply for plant variety protection for a newly discovered or bred plant variety at the Federal Plant Variety Office (BSA).

  • Examination of Patentability

    Patents allow you to protect your technical inventions from unauthorized copying. To help you assess the patentability of your invention, this section describes the process from filing the application through the request for examination to the possible grant of a patent.  

  • File a patent application

    You can apply to the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) to have technical inventions that are new, inventive, and industrially applicable protected by a patent. 

  • File an Appeal Against Decisions by the DPMA

    You may file an appeal against decisions made by the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) in intellectual property proceedings.

  • Intellectual Property Rights

    Here you will find information about your rights and obligations regarding starting, operating, and closing a business, particularly regarding the registration of patents, utility models, trademarks, and designs.

  • Register a Design

    You can protect designs that are new and have a distinctive character by registering them as registered designs with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA).

  • Register a Trademark

    You can register trademarks—which serve to distinguish a company’s goods and services from those of other companies—with the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA). 

  • Renew a Trademark

    When the term of protection for your trademark expires, you can renew it. 

  • Submit a search request for a preliminary assessment of the patentability of a patent application

    If you would like to have a rough idea of whether your invention, for which a patent application has been filed, is novel and inventive before filing a request for examination, you can file a request for a search.

  • Submit product information texts

    As a pharmaceutical company, you must submit the product information texts to the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) via a specialist application once the procedure has been completed. The texts will be published.

  • View the DPMA Register

    If you need information on the current legal and procedural status of patents, utility models, or trademarks, you can conduct online searches using the "DPMAregister" service.