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Current Statistical Data for Utility Models

At a glance

	2020	2021	Changes in %
Applications (utility model applications at the DPMA and PCT applications after entering the national phase)	12,313	10,577	-14.1
Registration procedures concluded	12,229	11,337	-7.3
- with registration	10,734	9,972	-7.1
Utility models in force	74,858	72,728	-2.8

Filings

Year	New applications	Applications from Germany	Remissions by the Federal Patent Court, allowed appeals, reinstatements	Total
2017	13,300	9,480	31	13,331
2018	12,305	8,798	21	12,326
2019	11,665	8,434	14	11,679
2020	12,313	8,894	14	12,327
2021	10,577	7,018	13	10,590

Procedures concluded

Year	by registration	without registration	Total
2017	11,881	1,761	13,642
2018	11,294	1,619	12,913
2019	10,293	1,540	11,833
2020	10,734	1,495	12,229
2021	9,972	1,365	11,337

Utility Models applications by German Länder 2021

Land	Applications	Percentage	Applications per 100,000 inhabitants
North Rhine-Westphalia	1,697	24.2	9
Bavaria	1,534	21.9	12
Baden-Württemberg	1,291	18.4	12
Lower Saxony	543	7.7	7
Hesse	493	7.0	8
Rhineland-Palatinate	282	4.0	7
Berlin	255	3.6	7
Saxony	196	2.8	5
Schleswig-Holstein	175	2.5	6
Hamburg	126	1.8	7
Thuringia	125	1.8	6
Brandenburg	96	1.4	4
Saxony-Anhalt	69	1.0	3
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	55	0.8	3
Saarland	49	0.7	5
Bremen	32	0.5	5
Germany	7,018	100	8

TOP 5 Fields of technology ^[1]

Field of technology (area)	Applications in 2020	Applications in 2021	Changes in %
35 - Civil engineering (other fields)	1,185	1,065	-10.1
32 - Transport (mechanical engineering)	1,235	1,050	-15.0
33 - Furniture, games (other fields)	1,204	1,000	-16.9
1 - Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (electrical engineering)	930	776	-16.6
13 - Medical Technology (Instruments)	784	706	-9.9
[1] According to the WIPO IPC-Technology Concordance Table.

Last updated: 1 March 2022