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 models
The German patent- and Trademark Office (DPMA) has on 1. June 2011 the electronic case file for patents and utility models (ElSA Pat/Gbm) imported. Since all operations in patent be- and utility models handled only in digitized form. The DPMA is continuously working, to improve processes further. If you look for when filing applications and petitions to the following, You can help, to optimize the processing of entries in the DPMA.
Wait for an application by fax, the transmission of the file number from, before you submit the original documents. Add the original documents a corresponding letter in, taking on the official document number reference. This helps us ensure that the assignment of documents. The assignment of multiple application numbers is avoided.
For all other inputs, the effective or. may be submitted within the prescribed period during fax, please see it from, nachzureichen the original. This does not apply to entries, to be used during the procedure for a publication. For this we need the original.
Please regulations published by the DPMA Forms Use, since only a proper form recognition in the digitization of the documents can be ensured. Do not change the data published by the DPMA forms; add instead, if necessary, a separate cover letter with.
Use for application documents preferably Arial font. This allows e.g.. Recognition errors are avoided when scanning documents.
Take the opportunity, Patent- submitted and utility model applications and appeals and complaints in patent proceedings electronically DPMAdirekt. If you send PDF files, You use a text-based PDF format, since the documents otherwise can not be published without media discontinuities.
If you provide information on the payment of a fee, use the forms provided for that purpose (z.B. A 9507 – Form for direct debit) and text fields (z.B. in the form P 2007), because this information is processed separately. It is not necessary, the DPMA to announce or bank transfer charges made in a separate letter.
Submit or in connection with application for the amendment of the register or the registration of a pledge. of any other right (§ 29 DPMAV) only copies of documents as proof of the respective change a. If for descriptions in individual cases, the evidence may be made only by original documents (z.B. enforceable copy of a judgment, Copy of inheritance), the original will be requested separately.
Submit applications to various property rights, and file number in separate documents.
Applications for registration of representative changes to 50 and more file number should be submitted separately along with the expression of an Excel spreadsheet and after Kinds of Protection. The Excel spreadsheet should contain the following information: national reference number without department code, Name of the applicant and internal reference number of the (new) Representative.
Type of data input to European or international patent applications and patent rights as possible the respective national file reference instead of the EP- and WO publication numbers or. which EP- and PCT filing reference.
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