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Top 25 Ip licensing firms based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 80 ip licensing firms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 1,555 professional contacts across them, including 731 with verified work emails. Munchen is the largest hub.
This list covers ip licensing firms headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest ip licensing firms based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HOFFMANN EITLE is one of the largest intellectual property law firms in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 194 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GRÜNECKER is one of the largest Intellectual Property law firms in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BARDEHLE PAGENBERG is one of the leading Intellectual Property law firms in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Imprint: Data Protection Policy: As one of Germany's largest and best-known firms in the field of intellectual property, Maiwald’s foremost aim is to achieve the best possible…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VOSSIUS & PARTNER is a partnership of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law with offices in Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Basel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From our beginnings in 1994, Brandstock Group has grown into one of the leading providers of Intellectual Property services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VJP is a boutique law firm specialised in all areas of IP law, both contentious and non-contentious.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “dompatent by Kreisler Selting Werner: Customized solutions for over 70 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We defend your Intellectual Property.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more than 50 years our firm has been active in the field of Intellectual Property "IP", dealing in particular with patents, trademarks, designs, copyrights and domains.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Witte Weller & Partner is one of the renowned IP boutique firm with 18 partners, in Germany, based in Stuttgart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “THE SPECIALISTS FOR PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Harmsen Utescher is active internationally for national and foreign clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Betten & Resch is a boutique firm specializing in all fields of IP law including patent, trademark, design, copyright, and unfair competition law.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over 45 years of experience KUHNEN & WACKER has become highly regarded internationally in the field of Intellectual Property.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MERH-IP Matias Erny Reichl Hoffmann is a Munich-based patent law firm founded by four patent attorneys with longstanding experience as former partners of three prominent…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VON ROHR zählt zu den führenden Patentanwaltskanzleien in Nordrhein-Westfalen und bietet umfassende Beratung im gewerblichen Rechtsschutz.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “European Patents, Trademarks, Designs, Utility Patents, Infringement, Licensing Our patent attorneys have scientific backgrounds which enables us to offer our clients highly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to TWIP- Tergau & Walkenhorst Intellectual Property GmbH - the "Agile IP Company!".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stolmár & Partner is a steadily growing IP law firm with at present 14 patent, trademark and design attorneys.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Patentanwälte BAUER-VORBERG-KAYSER Partnerschaft mbB Goltsteinstraße 87 50968 Köln Telefon +49 (0)221-33 77 56 0 Fax +49 (0)221-33 77 56 77 office@bvk-patent.de Wir verstehen uns…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ideas matter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Mitarbeiter und Partner von MFG Patentanwälte unterstützen Sie in allen Fragen des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EXPERTISE AND CONTINUITY Who we are Jürgen Kroher and Wolfgang Strobel founded our law firm in 1995.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As an IP-Boutique we take pride in handling our clients' IP (patents, trademarks, litigation, etc.) no matter where in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Das moderne Unternehmen sichert seine Innovationen und seinen guten Namen gegen rechtswidrige Ausbeutung ab.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: ip licensing firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names ip licensing firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of ip licensing firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name ip licensing firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Ip licensing firms based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 80 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among ip licensing firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “ip licensing firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names ip licensing firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among ip licensing firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 731 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names ip licensing firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many ip licensing firms are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 80 ip licensing firms headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Hoffmann Eitle, headquartered in Munich, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most ip licensing firms?
Munchen leads with 18 headquartered companies, followed by Munich (11) and Koln (6).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.