Zimmermann & Partner Patentanwälte mbB
Public patent records for Zimmermann & Partner Patentanwälte mbB, 1978–2025: 4,568 patent families shared with other firms for 330 clients (applicants). Sign in to explore the app’s partner network, selected filing periods, filing activity, and client relationships.
- Patent families shared with other firms
- 4,568
- 1978–2025. One family can be counted more than once.
- Activity 2016–2020
- 1,733
- Distinct families per year, summed over the last five complete years. 2021 onward is still being published.
- Clients (applicants)
- 330
- Applicants named on these families, all recorded years. Not a full client list.
- Firms shown below
- 5
Activity trend (2017–2026)
- Scope
- Zimmermann & Partner Patentanwälte mbB · Europe
- Filing years
- 2017–2025
- Unit
- Distinct families per year
2021–2026 are preliminary. Patent filings publish about 18 months after filing, and foreign filings can enter later, so these counts are still filling in.
Each family counts once within a year. A family may recur in multiple years.
View annual counts
| Year | Distinct families per year |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 337 |
| 2018 | 334 |
| 2019 | 370 |
| 2020 | 435 |
| 2021 · preliminary | 375 |
| 2022 · preliminary | 373 |
| 2023 · preliminary | 84 |
| 2024 · preliminary | 42 |
| 2025 · preliminary | 3 |
Technology fields it focuses on
Fields where this firm's share of patent families is well above the average for Europe firms, 2018–2022.
| Field | Share of its families | vs Europe average |
|---|---|---|
| Electrotherapy; magnetotherapy; radiation therapy; ultrasound therapyIPC/CPC A61N | 11.5% | 12.7× |
| Coating metallic material; coating material with metallic material; surface treatment of metallic material by diffusion into the surface, by chemical conversion or substitution; coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering, by ion implantation or by chemical vapour deposition, in generalIPC/CPC C23C | 8.2% | 8.8× |
| Diagnosis; surgery; identificationIPC/CPC A61B | 15.8% | 3.1× |
| Layered products, i.e. products built-up of strata of flat or non-flat, e.g. cellular or honeycomb, formIPC/CPC B32B | 5.1% | 2.7× |
| Electric power networks; circuit arrangements or systems for supplying or distributing electric power; systems for storing electric energyIPC/CPC H02J | 4.3% | 2.7× |
Yearly counts for 2018–2022, added up: 2,925 of 2,993 families carry an IPC or CPC classification. Shares are of those classified families, and one family can fall in several fields.
Frequently associated firms
Firms that most often appear on the same patent families. One family can be counted more than once, so these are not unique totals.
Similar Europe firms
Yearly counts since 1990, added up. One family can be counted more than once.
- V.O.4,656 shared patent families
- Philips Intellectual Property & Standards4,477 shared patent families
- Regimbeau4,663 shared patent families
- Forresters IP LLP4,725 shared patent families
- Pfenning Meinig Partner4,848 shared patent families
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