In order to have protection under the German law seeing that a Gebrauchsmuster - utility model filed in German protects the technology in the country of establishment, a non-residence of Germany would have to acquire a resident respresentative. The Gebrauchsmuster, or model of utility, protects only the 1st applicant. A new arrangement or new configuration for a practical application has full protection as a Gebrauchsmuster. For now I don't think the acronym matters whether D.R.G.M. or D.R.M.S( Deutschen Reichs Gebrauchsmuster Schutz ). The filing fee was 15 Marks and warranted protection for the 1st 3 years. An extension of 3 additional years would cost you an additional 60 marks. The extension of the Gebrauchsmuster was advertised just like the initial but it was in a column noting the payment of 60 Marks. Post WWI the fees grew to 60 Marks for the application and 150 Marks for the 3 year extension. Fine for infringement could be up to 5000 Marks. If for some reason your Gebrauchsmuster was rejected, 1/2 of the application/filing fee was returned(this may have been post 1913??).

The following conditions had to be met:


An Application;

The title wherein the model is to be registered;

A statement of the new arrangement or configuration which was to be protected;

A receipt for 15 Marks paid to the Patent Office, or a guarantee that it will arrive at the same instance as the application;

The name, profession and residence of applicant or representative;

Signature of filling applicant noting profession & address;

A picture or facsimile of model either on bristol or cardboard no less than 33cm x 21cm, with a max of 33cm in one direction and a maximum dimension of 50cm X 50cm;

A power of attorney for applicant if a resident representative has been engaged;

All instruments to be filed in duplicate and having dimensions no less than 33cm X 21cm

A D.R.P. on the other hand had a filing fee of 20 Marks, a 30 Mark charge for the 1st year; a 50 Mark charge for the 2nd year and an additional 50 marks, or 50 mark increase/year, for each additional year to 15 years.

Some sort of new patent laws were drafted circa 1913, with each of the 1st 5 years having a 50 Mark/year fee and the additional extensions were a progressive 50 Mark/year increase with a max charge of 3500 Marks, which would have been 5280 Marks prior to the new law.


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Raimey
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