Bias towards fossil energy at the German Patent Office (DPMA) in Munich? Coincidence of "COP30's missing phase out treaty on coal, oil and gas" and "hydrogen-relevance-denial by the DPMA"?
Bias towards fossil energy at the German Patent Office (DPMA) in Munich? Coincidence of "COP30's missing phase out treaty on coal, oil and gas", and "h ydrogen-relevance-denial by the DPMA"? Bias towards fossil energy at the German Patent Office (DPMA) can be understood less as an explicit policy and more as a structural inertia of a patent system that grew up with fossil‑based industry. Officially, the DPMA presents itself as a supporter of climate‑friendly innovation: its recent analysis and annual report celebrate sharp increases in German patent applications for solar and wind technologies and explicitly frame patents as a tool to reach climate targets and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. ( Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt ) Yet even these documents acknowledge long periods of stagnation in alternative power generation technologies, hinting that the innovation pipeline for genuinely transformative energy systems is still fragile. Against this backdrop, in...