For Inhouse IP Teams

Hit your filing number, and only file what matters.

Ziebig works as your outside IP team. We fill your pipeline, check what is worth protecting, and handle the filing, on a fixed budget.

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On file for companies across our core fields

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How it works

Three things you can hand to us.

Hand off as much of the filing process as you need, without changing how your department works.

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Invention harvesting

Fill your pipeline.

Harvesting sessions with your R&D turn ideas into filing-ready disclosures, so you hit your number even when R&D runs quiet.

02
Business-model check

File only what matters.

We check whether a patent is actually critical to the business before you spend budget, so the money goes where it protects value.

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Drafting and filing

Hand off the filing.

Drafting and filing handled reliably and on time, on a fixed annual budget.

Why IP teams work with us

A firm built for how your department runs.

Fixed-fee packages

Budgets you set at the start of the year, with no hourly surprises.

Proactive and on time

We stay ahead of your deadlines and update you without being asked.

We fit your process

We slot into your systems and reporting, so nothing changes for your team.

A number we guarantee

The filings you committed to, delivered, with ideation to fill any gap.

Fixed-price packages

Modular packages for IP departments.

A guaranteed number of invention disclosures and first filings, on a budget you set at the start of the year. Combine the packages you need. We focus on drafting, filing, and prosecution up to grant.

Package I

Drafting and first filings

Patent drafting and first filings with the GPTO or EPO.

Package II

Foreign filings

Subsequent second filings, including adaptation of the applications and official fees.

Package III

Office Action handling

Reporting Office Actions, docketing, and drafting and filing responses (first two OA).

Package IV

Grant phase

Reporting, checking, docketing, and completion of R. 71(3) EPC including official fees. Translations and validations prepared.

Industries

Your industry, our IP focus.

Our attorneys are engineers and scientists themselves, deep in the fields where IP decides the outcome.

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AI & Software

Computer-implemented inventions and machine learning, judged against current EPO practice.

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Robotics & Drones

Hardware, software, AI, and sensors in one product, the highest IP complexity of any field.

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Life Sciences & Medtech

Devices and diagnostics, where filing runs alongside MDR approval.

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Biotech

Where fundamental patents decide whether a company can raise money at all.

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Materials & Chemistry

Substances, processes, uses, and formulations, each protectable in its own right.

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Cleantech & Energy

Energy generation, storage, and grid technologies.

We also file in automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, and other technical fields.

IP rights

One partner for every IP right.

File every kind of protection through one firm, in Germany, Europe, and abroad.

Patents

Examined protection for inventions, filed nationally, at the EPO, or via the PCT route.

Utility models

Faster, unexamined protection for inventions where speed matters.

Trademarks

Protection for the names, logos, and brands your products carry.

Designs

Registered protection for the appearance and shape of a product.

Prior-art searches

A clear read on what already exists before you commit budget.

Freedom-to-operate

Clearance that a product can launch without infringing existing rights.

Our IP department team

We have worked inhouse ourselves.

Our IP department team brings years of experience as inhouse patent counsel. We know your constraints from the inside, whether cost or timing, and we work as a sparring partner in regular personal contact. We work in line with DIN 77006, the German quality standard for IP management.

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Grant rate (industry avg. 56%)
5,000+
Patents filed
~4,000
Under representation

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Book your free strategy call, or reach us by email or phone.

Anything you share is confidential from the first conversation. As patent attorneys, we are bound to secrecy by law. [Optional]

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Image: Moritz Breitenbach in the Berlin office

Moritz Breitenbach

Partner, Patent Attorney

Email: office@ziebig-patent.com
Phone: +49 (0)30 2000570 40

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