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Thursday, May 12, 2005

DPMA 2004 Annual Report Released.

The

German Patent and Trade Mark Office (DPMA) has just released its

2004 Annual Report (PDF, in German only) reporting some increase in filing numbers for patents (plus 1.5 percent), utility modes (plus 1.1 percent), and trade marks (plus 6.2 percent). In contrast, filings for German national design registrations have dropped by 9.4 percent. At the end of 2004, a total of 2.255 Patentanwälte (German Patent Attorneys) were registered, an all-time maximum never seen before (Nevertheless this figure looks quite vanishing against the number of

132.569 Rechtsanwälte (Attorneys-At-Law) registered in Germany on January 01, 2005).

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