New registrations of: Warning system, Coupling device, Feed roll, Oil sight glass, Car lock

No. Selection File number Protection type Designation 1 20 2004 021 941.7 Utility model Selectable eccentric remodeling and/or ablation of atherosclerotic material 2 20 2004 021 942.5 Utility model Selectable eccentric remodeling and/or ablation…

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Competition capsules for Nespresso coffee machines 0,29 Cent (instead 0,39 Cent) is no patent infringement, because the capsules are not covered by patent protection

According to the press release of the OLG Dusseldorf shown below the competition capsules for Nespresso machines are for 0,29 Cent (instead 0,39 Cent) no patent infringement, because the capsules are not covered by patent protection and…

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Fees for PCT applications (international patent applications) DPMA from 01.01.2013

  Fees for the PCT application filed on or after the DPMA 01.01.2013 Application form Submission fee International filing fee * Search fee Total reduction for electronic filing on paper 90,00 € 1100,00 € 1875,00 € 3065,00 €…

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Registration of new utility model applications since 01.01.2013 in the Register des Patentamtes

1 20 2007 019 442.0 Utility model GEKA GmbH, 91572 Bechhofen, THE Misselhorn Wall Patent- and lawyers, 80335 Munich, DE 2 20 2009 018 713.6 Utility model DOTECH GmbH, 75447 Rock Star, DE…

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The Patent Office, the Patent Application “Server and method for presenting and gathering data” now disclosed

INID Criterion Field Content Protection Type SART Patent Status ST Pending/In Force 21 INID Criterion Field Content Protection Type SART Patent Status ST Pending/In Force 11 2010 005 113.5 86 File number WO WAKZ PCT/NO2010/000011 87 Publication number WO WPN 2011084065 54…

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predominantly positive experience with the in 2011 introduced electronic case file (Elsa) in the areas of patents and utility models

Industry meeting in the German patent- and trademark office press release dated 15. November 2012 Munich. As part of the industry meeting, the annual user conference of the German Patent- and Trademark Office (DPMA), More than 200 people found out more today…

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Procedural Notes of the Patent Office during registration of utility models and patents

Bulletin No. 13/12 the President of the German Patent- and Trademark Office to provide instructions for filing applications and petitions in patent- and utility model proceedings The German patent- and Trademark Office (DPMA) has on…

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Figures or drawings, but patents do not disclose the exact mass of the device (BGH)

Schematic representations, as they are commonly found in patent documents, usually reveal only the principle of the claimed device, but not exact dimensions. A court is not generally held,…

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2012 there were more patent applications, fewer brands, Utility model and design patents

Press release from the dpma 30. October 2012 Munich. According to preliminary projections, the German Patent expected- and Trademark Office (DPMA) for the year 2012 increasing patent applications. In contrast, the authority calculates for utility models…

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Warning of payment requests relating to patent applications

The German patent- and Trademark Office warns in connection with patent applications and renewals - partially misleading - Offered, Payment requests and invoices, are not the German Patent- and Trademark Office come. employees…

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Software Patent: Urteil BGH X ZR 121/09 – Web page display (it is sufficient for the technicality, when it results from the description)

a) For inventions related to devices and methods (Programs) of electronic data processing is necessary first to ascertain, if the subject matter of the invention is at least to a partial aspect of the technical field…

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Forms in patent matters, Protection certificate, Redesigned request for publication of the translation of the claims of a European patent application

For the application for grant of a patent (P 2007), the application for the grant of a supplementary protection certificate (P 2008), the request for extension of the duration of a supplementary protection certificate (P 2040) and…

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New DPMA forms for supplementary protection certificates (Medicines inventions)

the President of the German Patent- and Trademark Office on the forms to be used in patent matters 14. February 2011 For the application for a supplementary protection certificate and the application for…

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