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Formerly called. Kaiserliches Patentamt. Reichspatentamt. Deutsches Patentamt. The German Patent and Trade Mark Office (German: Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt; abbreviation: DPMA) is the German national patent office, with headquarters in Munich, and offices in Berlin and Jena. In 2006 it employed 2556 people, of which about 700 were patent ...
The German patent has a term of 20 years. After grant of a patent through the EPO or the Euro-PCT route a European patent is valid in Germany without further translation requirements if that country was indicated in the application. If unitary effect is requested upon grant of a European patent, that unitary patent also applies in Germany.
The Federal Patent Court (German: Bundespatentgericht, pronounced [bʊndəspaˈtɛntɡəʁɪçt] ⓘ; abbreviation: BPatG) is a German federal court competent for particular legal matters, such as patent and trademark cases. It has its seat in Munich, Germany, and was established on July 1, 1961. Within Germany's dual system, in which patent ...
The European Patent Register, also known as the Register of European Patents, [1] is a public register kept by the European Patent Office (EPO). It contains legal information relating to published European patent applications and European patents granted under the European Patent Convention (EPC). The register notably provides the current legal ...
Patent offices in Europe. European patent law is characterized by the coexistence of. a Unified Patent Court (UPC) competent for the member states of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA). The enforcement of European patents is conducted and decided either at a national level, i.e. before national courts, [1] or at the UPC level, for ...
The German Federal Court of Justice, the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO), and the German Patent Court all fall under its scope, including affairs on court administration. The ministry is officially located in Berlin. [3] The BMJ was founded on 1 January 1877 as the Imperial Justice Office (Reichsjustizamt).
The German Patent Office ( German: Kaiserliches Patentamt) started developing a classification system for its patent documents in 1877. [1] It was greatly expanded during the following decades and was published in seven editions between 1906 and 1958, first as " Verzeichnis der deutschen Patentklassen " and later as " Gruppeneinteilung der ...
In trademark law, Sieckmann v German Patent and Trademark Office (case C-273/00) issued on December 12, 2002, is widely recognised as a landmark decision of the European Court of Justice on the graphical representation of non-conventional trademarks under the European Trade Marks Directive . The case involved a "methyl cinnamate" scent, which ...