2. Application submission method:
Submitted to the German Patent and Trademark Offices in Munich, Jena and Berlin;
Submitted to the German Patent Information Center;
Submit a utility model application online through DPMAdirekt.
3. Joint application: A utility model application can include at most 100 utility models, but these utility models must be applicable to at least one same commodity category.
4. If you claim foreign priority through the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property or as a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization, you need to submit an application in Germany within 6 months after China submitted the earlier application, and you need to submit the time, country and case number of China's earlier application, as well as a copy of China's earlier application documents or China National Intellectual Property Administration's earlier application documents within 16 months from the priority date.
5. If an application for a utility model is filed within 6 months after the utility model is first exhibited in the exhibition, the priority of the first exhibition may be claimed.
6. A party who has no habitual residence or business office in Germany needs to hire a German lawyer or patent agent as an agent.
7. Existing design refers to a utility model known to the public in any way before the date of application. Only the details are not significantly different from the utility model before the filing date, which still belongs to the existing design, but the novelty judgment of the utility model will not be affected if the applicant discloses it by himself within 12 months before the filing date.
8. Both parties may also apply for utility models registered in Germany through utility models or international utility models.
9. The parties may apply for an extension of the publication of the performance of the utility model for a maximum of 30 months, and only need to submit two-dimensional samples (not the performance of the utility model). During the extension period, the protection period of the utility model is only 30 months, and the protection is limited to unauthorized copying of the utility model. During this period, both parties can decide whether to extend the protection period to 5 years from the date of application. After paying the renewal fee and supplementing the performance of the utility model, the registered utility model will be in.
10, the utility model published in Germany can automatically get the protection of the same utility model that has not been registered in the EU for three years, and the protection is limited to unauthorized copying.
1 1. Germany has acceded to a large number of international conventions related to utility models, including the Agreement on Trade-related Intellectual Property Rights, the Convention for the Establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property Rights, The Hague Agreement on the International Registration of Industrial Utility Models, and the Locarno Agreement on the Establishment of an International Classification of Industrial Utility Models.