Central industrial property office

Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt

80297 MÜNCHEN

Tel. (+ 49 89) 2195-0

Fax (+ 49 89) 2195-2221

www.dpma.de

Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt

Dienststelle Jena

07738 JENA

Tel. (+ 49 3641) 40 54

Fax (+ 49 3641) 40 56 90

1 Applicant can choose between EPO and national authorities (subject to column 2)

Yes

Art. II § 4(1) LIPC

2 Applications which must be filed with national authorities

Applications which may contain a State secret

Art. II § 4(2) LIPC

3 Languages in which European patent applications must or may be filed with national authorities

All the languages pursuant to Art. 14(1) and (2) EPC

4 Official language(s)

German

5 Special features

Applications as in column 1 may be filed at the EPO, with the German Patent and Trademark Office and its patent information centres in the following towns: Bremen, Chemnitz, Dortmund, Dresden, Halle, Hamburg, Ilmenau, Kaiserslautern, Nürnberg, Saarbrücken and Stuttgart.

BGBI. 1999 I 648, 2193

BGBl. 2000 I 1416

BGBl. 2001 I 341;

Bl.f.PMZ 1999, 169, 325

Bl.f.PMZ 2000, 353

Bl.f.PMZ 2001, 114

In the case of applications as in column 2, the applicant must indicate in an annex that the application may, in the view of the applicant, contain a State secret.

Applications may also be filed by facsimile.*

* See decision of the President of the EPO and notice from the EPO: OJ EPO 1992, 299 and 306.