A digital mindset. Professional legal expertise. Transparency. Trust. Experimentation. This blend makes us unique.
Philipa is a digital and network based patent law firm, established on servers, cloud computing, databases, algorithms, AI and program code rather than on paper files, representative offices and large back-office resources. We provide a digital infrastructure and processes that support you to build up and manage patent portfolios that have the potential to grow your business. Welcome to your future digital patent department. Today.
creative forward thinkers, hard workers with deep knowledge. Just like us.
You know that change is accelerating its pace. That is demanding. And full of new opportunities. Digital disruption, new business challenges and increased innovation speed require a new and smart way to protect your innovations and grow your business. We enable you to succeed.
How would you grow your business if it would be possible to offer products with unique customer benefits monopolized exclusively to your company. Sounds like business heaven? We call it patent strategy.
Patents provide a legally enforceable monopoly for 20 years. Let us merge your business and R&D strategy with an appropriately aligned patent strategy to protect and grow your future business and unleash the full strategic power of patents.
External legal services can be costly and the billable hours can be unpredictable. What would a predictable and transparent budget managment, significant cost savings and a digital portfolio management of your patent portfolio mean to your budgets?
We know the cost pressure. And the business model of traditional legal services will not promise any budget relief. What if there was a patent service provider that has simply cut away major cost drivers and expensive status symbols? A service provider that invests heavily in digitizing processes and focuses on what adds value for the customer. With business-oriented and budget-friendly patent services combined with state-of-the-art digital process efficiency. Welcome to philipa.
You have an agile, inspired, creative, passionate and business oriented R&D department. Why shouldn't your patent attorneys not just be the same?
We support your projects from the early idea until successful market launch and beyond. With industry proven IP processes, digital tools and industry experienced patent attorneys: While your team can focus on creating the future technologies and products of your company, we tailor the optimal protection for your innovations. We work deeply project embedded, interactive and communicative. We are serious. And seriously fun.
Running an in-house patent department is a challenging task. We know how vital it is to have the right external partners. And we have founded philipa to be the partner that we always wished to exist.
Due to our smart business model, we provide you with reasonable and predictable flat rate services that will not eat up your budget. Gaining flexibility while cutting costs is no longer contradictory.
You are working as patent manager and patent professional in a company. We have done that, too. For nearly 20 years. Before we founded philipa as an external patent department.
We wanted to establish a patent service provider that is thinking like an in-house patent department rather than an external law firm. That can anticipate the challenges and pressure. And that can provide service and digital solutions that will support you to advance.
As an engineer, scientist or technician you want to focus on your R&D work. We enable you to do so while assuring that your development and projects are appropriately protected and not interfering with third party rights.
Where the time pressure and work load in R&D departments is continously rising we help you to keep the pace. Agile processes for project embedded patent counseling, 24/7 video conferencing availability and our digital tools are only some examples of how an inventor - patent attorney interaction can look like.
Our team members have been working with multinational companies like BMW, Henkel, thyssenkrupp or SCHAEFFLER. And we know the challenges which big players are facing in times of change.
Therefore, we have developed IP services that are agile, transparent, digitally based and reasonably priced so that multinational companies can explore new ways of managing their IP workload and IP cost management.
As an example: As communication across time zones can be difficult, we offer a 24/7 service for our multinational clients. Whether a development team in Tokio or a business team in Philadelphia needs our support, just call without thinking about time zones. We are there, when you need it. No compromise!
We are providing mid-sized companies with a "plug and play" patent department infrastructure and industry experienced patent attorneys available on site or via digital communication platforms. We offer access to a patent toolbox that was previously reserved for the big multinational companies.
With our "external in-house-patent-department" flat fee packages, we make business oriented, strategically focused and agile patent management accessible for the "Mittelstand"(*).
(*) german phrase for medium-sized businesses
Founding a start-up and puting a vision into reality is seriously challenging. And seriously fullfilling. Hey, we have founded philipa. We know what we are talking about.
The flourishing of your tech company may heavily depend on the protection of your know-how. In many cases this know-how represents the true value of your start-up. Translating your ideas into your own patents may hinder others from copying your products - and can ensure the survival of your company. On the other side, infringing the patents of someone else may even kill your start-up. We have created special Start-Up service packages, that are carefully shaped to help you to grow your business with the right patent strategy.
Filing IP abroad can be an expensive endeavor for a client. With our digital processes and IP interfaces patent filing in Europe has never been easier.
We are available for our partner law firms 24/7. You do not have to think about time zones, regardless if you are located in Bejing, Tokyo or San Fancisco. And our algorithms and servers do not sleep anyhow.
IP assets and especially patents are of utmost importance for the valuation of companies in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). With our digital tools we are able to support any M+A project with in-depth risk analysis to avoid that you are paying high for low quality patent portfolios.
We have developed a smart digital tool called "The Diligence Dude", that is checking more than 60 different quality criteria of a target portfolio. It enables us to provide you with detailed risk assessments within the usually tight timelines of a M&A project.
New challenges require unconventional approaches and innovative tools. Now.
Curiosity, out of the box thinking and agility are crucial to successfully navigate through a rapidly changing environment. With a fresh and optimistic mindset. Digitally powered. Exponentially smarter. We are just as the future of patent services. Smart, fast and completely different. Are you ready?
On-Demand products can be ordered on-demand. No need for a service plan subscription. Flexible and transparent access to standard patent products.
Product Bundles are carefully selected compilations of philipa products and services for defined purposes and clients needs
Service plans are subscriptions to a defined philipa service for a specified duration
On-Demand products can be ordered on-demand. No need for a service plan subscription. Flexible and transparent access to standard patent products.
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Product Bundles are carefully selected compilations of philipa products and services for defined purposes and client needs
Service plans are subscriptions to a defined philipa service for a specified duration
SERVICE PLANS
Before you file a patent application, we highly recommend to check the prior-art already existing in your competitive environment. As a first pre-check and patent screening we have developed the invention evaluaTHOR that will provide you with an overview over your competitors activities in the technical field of your invention within seconds.
With our patent compiler service we have realized a digital assisted patent drafting process that ensures the highest quality and efficiency standards. With the patent compiler we draft patent applications in the field of:
Sometimes one patent may not be enough to protect your future technology, your new product or business case appropriately. Think of the possible impact to your business case if someone is invalidating your most important patent. Hence, to protect your most precious technologies and products we have developed an industry proven scheme to build up patent clusters around your future technologies and products. This approach ensures appropriate protection without eating up your IP budgets. We have developed a software tool called GENERAL CLUSTER that helps us to create a patent cluster for your core technology.
Developing a new product can be expensive. Not seldomly, the R&D needed eats up budgets of several million Euros/Dollars. Also the marketing to introduce a product into the market is a costly exercise, which may demand for budgets even in excess of the R&D spending.
If your product should then infringe someone else's patent, this may lead to an economic disaster if you must remove the product from the market and pay compensations to the patent proprietor.
To manage and avoid such a painful scenario, we offer various Freedom-To-Operate (FTO) analysis service products based on a digital coBOT named liFTOff.
Let us guide you through German, European and PCT prosecution procedures in the most effective and digitally optimized manner available with our OFFICE ACTION HERO app. We can outline different feature and claimset combination within seconds to show and discuss the most appropriate scope of protection for your invention. You have 24/7 online access to your office actions with a complete documentation of the actions, submission and discussions. Want to become an OFFICE ACTION HERO too?
Defending your own or attacking your competitor's patents may be essential for your business. Therefore we have developed processes and digital tools that ensure the development of an appropriate litigation strategy and its best possible execution during the opposition proceedings. Many years of practical experiences in European and German opposition proceedings have shaped our digital opposiTHOR tool that will help you to understand and manage potential risks and critical pathways in such proceedings.
We have developed a smart digital tool called THE DILIGENCE DUDE, that is checking more than 60 different quality and potential risk criteria of a target portfolio. It enables us to provide you with detailed and transparent risk assessments within the usually tight timelines of an M&A project. With THE DILIGENCE DUDE we can provide first patent risk assessments within 1-2 days. We visualize even complex data and results in a highly comprehensive manner.
Your ViP – Virtual Inhouse Patent-Department – is just like a real inhouse patent department, only more flexible and scalable. ViP operates within fixed budgets & high budget discipline. Its patent activities are based on a business-oriented strategy that we align with you, you can set priorities and focus topics. Business minded attorneys & patent managers will manage your patent portfolio and perform a continuous quality & cost management. Do not care about the necessary IT infrastructure and software – it all comes included with ViP. Communication is via Skype and we may agree on on-site presence times. Just like a real patent department, only ViP.
Managing Information Disclosure Statements (IDS) can be a painful and resource-consuming exercise. To take this pain away from our clients, we have developed a fully automated IDS management process called AVOIDS. Avoid unnecessary costs and risks in managing your IDS and let us do the job with smart algorithms and coBots.
The first touchpoint of your most creative employees with the patent system is often a multi-page paper form. Why has it to be this way? Good question. We have developed a fully digital invention disclosure workflow which allows filing of an invention disclosure in less than 5 minutes including a first fully automated prior-art check of the invention. Your innovation cycles are accelerating rapidly. Make sure your invention mining and disclosure tools can keep up with this pace.
We represent non-European companies before the German and European Patent Office in prosecution procedures in the most effective and digitally optimized manner with our represenTHOR app. Simply upload your application to our secure represenTHOR app and we take care about everything else. You have 24/7 online access to your applications and office actions with a complete documentation of the actions, submissions and discussions.
The project consulTHOR bundle contains all services needed for a business oriented and effective patent consulting of your R&D projects, ensuring that the USPs of your next generation products are appropriately protected. Therefore we develop a product and business oriented patent strategy with your project team, we take care that you do not run into trouble with third-party patent rights while your R&D project proceeds and build up a protection shield around your new product that has the potential to safeguard you R&D investments accordingly. We work project embedded and participate frequently in your project meetings.
Creative thinking requires an inspiring workspace. Instead of a traditional law firm workspace, we have created a patent & innovation lab in which the future of digitally based patent services is developed today.
Equipped with cutting-edge digital infrastructure, flexible collaborative workstations, inspiration boards, VR-stations and communication equipment combined with advanced innovation processes and tools, philipa is shaping the future of the patent services. Our clients, R+D groups are invited to have innovation workshops here with us.
fixed prices, no surprises
Our products are fully transparent and easy to understand. No rocket science or hidden pricetraps. Simple for ourclients. Simple for philipa. Prices for IP products and services don't have to be complicated as the word is already complicated enough.
see what you get
Philipa products are well defined and specified. Our clients know exactly what they will receive. Philipa knows exactly what to deliver.
know how we work
Philipa works with continously improving digitally based and supported processes that are visible and fully transparent to ourclients.
digital workflow, not work slow
Our products and services are digitally thought and designed from scratch. No translation of an alogue workprocesses. Philipa products and services provide digital interfaces to other philipa products or client's IT systems.
we build beautiful tools and processes
Design is everywhere! We design products and tools that provide an unmatched user experience (UX). Patents and patent data can be so beautiful!
better than status-quo
Our products and services are designed to provide our clients a service experience that is at least 10x better than the existing traditional alternatives.
We have developed a future radar that uses various mega trend analytics to determine the range and velocity of technological, economical and social developments.
Hover over a trend spotted by the future radar to get some more insights about this trend. How are these developments affect your business and product development? How would it change the way philipa is supporting its clients?
If you would like to discuss this, just give us a call, or drop us a line!
+49-170-2009259
You order online today and delivery is expected tomorrow. It is the „amazonisation“ of services.
Reliable and short delivery is expected and an increasingly important indication of service quality. How long does it take till an invention is drafted into a patent application?
Is this the "Nowness!" your customers are expecting?
In the age of accelerating digitalisation people are looking for and valuing true human interactions. No AI (artificial intelligence) is considered to be empathic.
Thinks are geting more and mor complicated. I want to have it easy. Don't make me think!
A picture can say more than a thousand words. Visualisation of complex matters will be increasingly expected. This is the change from textual media to multi-media.
Doing the ordinary daily routine business is geting so boring. I want to be inspired to reach out for the stars. I want to be excited about the future. And I want my business partners to inspire me to become the best "ME" possible.
The generation Y grew up with digital media. There is no true difference between online and offline world. If it is not existing online, than it is not existing in the offline world for generation Y .
uX describes all aspects of a user's impressions when interacting with a product, service, environment or facility. Have you ever considered how the user's impression of a patent law firm is in the digital age?
I want you to be there when I need you. No telephone queues. No call centers. No chat bots.
I want to have services and products that exactly meet my personal requirements. Nothing off the shelf. They are made just for me. And I will love them.
Transparency
Honesty
Drive
We are shaping the future of our profession
by re-defining and re-inventing IP servives
We build a digital IP service eco-system
for a digital generation
which is easy to use, offers transparent products
and which is breathtaking beatutiul.
We create high quality and personal service experiences.
Questioning assumptions
Think deeply. Think digitaly.
Dont wait! Think, plan. act...and repeat!
Never stop learning
Iterate as a lifestyle
Details, details, details!
Design is everywhere!
..Impossible...
Inspire!
We built the world's most innovative IP law firm. It will be;
YOUR.
FUTURE.
DIGITAL.
PATENT.
DEPARTMENT.
…if you want to change the world of IP services. Do you question the status quo? Do you accept old traditions, or do you want create a new ones? Do you want to replace big law with smart law?
WE OFFER: A place to create the future of the patent attorney profession. The most advanced digital workspace for patent attorneys. Home Office? Beach Office? Flexibility as a freelancer.
WE DON'T OFFER: Egos, hirachies,routine, comfort zones, SUVs.
philipa is the vision of the digital future of patent & IP law services put to reality. Today. For you.
We have built a digital patent ecosystem which lifts the repetitive work from the patent attorney shoulders. Instead, we spend more time with and for our clients. Without cost explosions. But with strategical advice that adds some true value to their R&D projects and patent portfolios. In order to steer strategy and costs we provide you with online access to the philipa Sphere. Here you can check on your portfolio and track ongoing activities with us anytime.
Industry experienced patent attorneys with a strong business and strategy background.
As engineers and scientist our mother tongue is tech talk. As attorneys we have been trained to speak legal. Through our industry experience we became fluent in business and strategy. And in a digitalized world we talk C#, SQL, JavaScript, HTML and VBA. In other words: our capability to communicate is as diverse as the interfaces we encounter in our environment.
The philipa logo has been developed and designed by Eva Cordoba (evacordoba.com) and it perfectly fits to what philipa stands for: dynamic innovations, intelligent solutions, social behavior and fun to play with.
Thanks Eva!
"...I had created the character of adigital dolphin in my personal multileveled polygon impressionist technique which allows to create awesome unique sophisticated things for innovative brands, highlighting dynamic and energy mood..."
evacordoba@evacordoba.com
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