German Patent and Trade Mark Office
The German Patent and Trade Mark Office is the German national patent office, with headquarters in Munich, and offices in Berlin and Jena. In 2006 it employed 2556 people, of which about 700 were patent examiners.
Premises of the DPMA on Zweibrückenstraße, Munich, next to the headquarters of the European Patent Office (not visible, see image below).
Aerial image of the DPMA at Zweibrückenstraße, comprising the square-shaped and the long reddish building in the upper left part of the image. Right below it is the dark-coloured headquarters of the European Patent Office, above in the background lies the science museum Deutsches Museum on the other side of the river Isar.
Cincinnatistraße branch, Munich.
1977 stamp showing the Patent Office from 1877 to 1977. Picture of the new Patent Office building in 1905 on Gitschiner Road
A patent examiner is an employee, usually a civil servant with a scientific or engineering background, working at a patent office.
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