DPMAregister
The German Patent and Trade Mark Office's official register, searching German, EU and international marks protected in Germany.
- Starting price
- Free of charge
- Output
- Configurable result lists that can be organised and downloaded, and register entries that print or download as a complete register extract
- API
- DPMA connectPlus, an automated interface to the register and publication data, supplied under an agreement
Overview
DPMAregister is the official online register of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA), kept on a statutory basis for patents, utility models, trade marks and designs. For trade marks it holds German applications and registrations, plus EU trade marks and international registrations where Germany or the EU is designated. The DPMA states that it can be used online and free of charge, and it runs a separate alert service, DPMAkurier, on the same data.
Our take
Pick it if you plan to file in Germany, or already hold a German mark, and want to check the register and watch it for new filings without paying for either. It finds marks that share elements with yours but runs no similarity search, so if you need to know whether a similar mark could oppose yours, the DPMA points to commercial search providers, the patent information centres or a lawyer instead.
Key Facts
| Category | |
|---|---|
| Starting price | Free of charge The DPMA states that DPMAregister and the DPMAkurier alerts can be used free of charge; the DPMA connectPlus interface is supplied under an agreement against payment of the marginal cost of providing the data. |
| Output | Configurable result lists that can be organised and downloaded, and register entries that print or download as a complete register extract |
| API | DPMA connectPlus, an automated interface to the register and publication data, supplied under an agreement |
| Languages | English and German |
| Hosting | Web app at register.dpma.de |
| Made in | Germany |
Features
- Registers and countries covered
- German trade marks filed since 1 January 1998, registered German marks since October 1894 insofar as they were not deleted before 1 January 1995, an excerpt of rejected and withdrawn German marks, EU trade marks from the EUIPO, and WIPO international registrations where Germany or the EU is designated. The DPMA does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the EU and international data and points to the EUIPO and WIPO databases for a full search
- Word, phonetic and image search
- Basic, advanced and expert searches; the expert search queries register fields such as mark, type of mark, proprietor, classes, goods and services, colours and dates with comparison and proximity operators and wildcards, and figurative elements are searchable by Vienna Classification. The DPMA states that a similarity search is not possible
- Goods, services and Nice classes
- Classes and goods and services are search fields of their own, with a link to the internationally harmonised classification of goods and services
- Clearance and conflict screening
- A register search and not a clearance opinion: the DPMA does not check during the application procedure whether identical or similar marks are already registered, refers to commercial providers for similarity searches, and names patent information centres that search on your behalf for a fee
- Watch and alerts
- DPMAkurier sends automated e-mails daily, weekly or monthly on new publications and register changes, monitoring by file or publication number, by name, by class, by name and class, or user-defined; registration is needed before first use, the number of monitoring searches is not limited, and the DPMA states it can be used free of charge
- Reports and exports
- Result lists can be configured, organised and downloaded, a register entry prints or downloads as a complete register extract, and issues of the Markenblatt trade mark journal from 1950 onwards can be downloaded
- Integrations and API
- DPMA connectPlus gives automated online access to the register and publication data with the query options of the expert search, plus weekly data packages for trade marks, usually on Fridays; data is supplied on the basis of an agreement against payment of the marginal cost of providing it
Integrations
Integrations coming soon.
Deployment and Support
- Deployment
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- Browser-based
- Support
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- Phone
- Onboarding
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- Documentation and knowledge base
- Live online demos and webinars
- On-site training
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Covers EU trade marks and international registrations protected in Germany as well as German marks
- Watch alerts by name, class or file number, sent daily, weekly or monthly
- Expert search with proximity operators and Vienna Classification codes
- Telephone hotline for search questions and online-assisted searches with DPMA experts
Limitations
- No similarity search, as the DPMA itself notes
- The DPMA does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the EU and international data
- Covers marks with protection in Germany only
Pricing
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DPMAregister search
Free of charge
Online search of the official register and publication data, from the beginner's search to the expert search.
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DPMAkurier alerts
Free of charge
Alert e-mails on new publications and register changes; registration needed before first use.
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DPMA connectPlus
Not stated
Automated interface to the register data, supplied under an agreement against payment of the marginal cost of providing the data.
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