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Maiwald Chooses Solve Intelligence for Selected AI-Supported IP Workflows
Solve Intelligence is proud to share that Maiwald, one of Germany’s largest and most progressive intellectual property firms, works with Solve Intelligence on selected AI-supported workflows in its patent and legal practice groups. Following an evaluation period during which selected functionalities were assessed for approved internal use cases, Maiwald and Solve have formed an enterprise partnership for 2026.
The rollout reflects the same careful approach Maiwald brings to its client work. Solve enables customers in Europe to process data on servers located within Europe and holds recognized information-security certifications. In addition, Solve offers contractual commitments designed to protect confidential professional information in line with applicable statutory confidentiality obligations and professional conduct requirements. Against that background, any use of AI-supported tools took place only within approved governance structures and under applicable professional, contractual, confidentiality and data-protection requirements.
That balance of innovation and professional judgment is characteristic of Maiwald. The firm has spent decades setting a standard for IP work in Europe: rigorous prosecution, a formidable contentious practice, and interdisciplinary teams of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law working side by side. The firm approached AI the same way, methodically, with a clear sense of where it adds leverage and where an experienced attorney’s judgment remains irreplaceable.
Key Insights
- Maiwald explored Solve’s functionalities during a fixed evaluation period culminating in an enterprise partnership after evaluating multiple solutions on the market.
- Charts gives Maiwald’s litigation team one source-cited environment, e.g., for invalidity charts, claim construction, and evaluation of search results: the groundwork behind opposition, nullity, infringement and UPC matters.
- The platform’s depth in life sciences also including ChemDraw®1 as embedded chemical drawing editor facilitates patent work across biologics and small molecules, one of the firm’s most important practice areas.
- The partnership is supported on the ground by Solve’s Munich office and a dedicated, German-speaking team admitted before the UPC, the German courts and the EPO, with private-practice experience across the firm’s core fields, including life sciences.
About Maiwald
Maiwald is one of Germany’s largest and best-known IP firms, with more than 280 staff members across its offices in Munich and Düsseldorf. Its interdisciplinary teams, comprising more than 110 patent attorneys, attorneys-at-law and technical specialists including an in-house patent search department, advise clients of every size and sector, in Germany, Europe and beyond.
The firm’s technical breadth is exceptional, running from pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and chemistry, which have long been a particular strength, through to electrical and mechanical engineering, communications and IT, mobility and energy, and medical technology.
Maiwald’s work spans the full patent lifecycle, from drafting and worldwide prosecution to FTO opinions and complex portfolio management, alongside a leading contentious practice: opposition and appeal before the German and European Patent Offices, infringement and nullity before the national courts, and representation before the Unified Patent Court, with attorneys-at-law experienced in coordinating cross-border litigation. The firm is consistently ranked by IAM Patent 1000, MIP IP Stars, Chambers, JUVE Patent and The Legal 500. They are also voted one of the best commercial law firms by brandeins and Statista.
The bar at Maiwald is high. A technically demanding docket, complex multi-jurisdictional disputes, and a quality standard maintained for decades meant that any AI platform had to prove it could meet the firm where it works.
Evaluation Period
Maiwald conducted an evaluation period during which various functionalities were assessed for selected internal use cases.
The key to a successful evaluation and implementation requires the level of organisation and teamwork that Maiwald is known for and a solution that enhances the commercial judgement of its attorneys as they look to achieve the best outcome for their clients in every case.
"With its intuitive usability and transparent prompting, Solve Intelligence makes the use of AI in the patent field easily accessible. The platform helps us evaluate large volumes of information efficiently and creates more room for what we do best: providing strategic advice to our clients." - Dr. Regina Neuefeind, Partner at Maiwald
Solve Intelligence in Action
Maiwald’s attorneys are now evaluating and using Solve Intelligence in selected use cases.
Prosecution, opposition and appeal. The platform summarises examiner objections, identifies the key grounds of rejection, and surfaces counterarguments and prosecution avenues for attorney review across EPO and German Patent Office practice, and into opposition and appeal, while the substantive decisions stay with the attorney.
Charts, built for the litigation team. Charts is where Solve supports the firm’s contentious practice. In one source-cited, auditable environment, Maiwald’s litigators and patent attorneys generate and analyse invalidity claim charts for nullity actions and EPO oppositions, conduct claim construction analyses, and evaluate search results.
Depth in life sciences. Life sciences and chemistry are among Maiwald’s defining strengths, and the platform is built for that type of work. Practitioners can create ChemDraw® structures and import and validate ST.26 sequence listings. Across dense prior-art domains like biologics, small molecules and diagnostics, the platform also gives claim-level visibility for portfolio reviews: mapping coverage against therapeutic areas, biosimilar entrants and competitor filings, and exposure across patent term and regulatory exclusivity.
Solve Assistant. Solve’s agentic Assistant, the newest module, is already in use, handling everyday, multi-step tasks from searching portfolios, drafting letters, and legal research.
Supported from Solve’s Munich Office
This is a partnership with people behind it, not just a licence to software. Maiwald is supported on the ground by Solve’s Munich office and by a dedicated, German-speaking team matched to the firm’s practice areas: patent litigators and patent attorneys admitted before the Unified Patent Court, the German courts and the European Patent Office, with years of private-practice experience across the firm’s core fields, including life sciences.
Around 35% of Solve’s team are qualified patent attorneys and IP specialists, so Maiwald’s attorneys work with people who understand the craft and the forums they practise in. That same team leads the rollout, building custom AI styles and templates by team, client and jurisdiction, and Solve looks forward to continuing the partnership in person in Germany.
“This is a collaborative partnership. We are pleased to support Maiwald in selected AI-supported workflows for IP work , and Solve will continue to build the go-to AI platform for German and global patent practice.” - Dr. Lukas Wollenschlaeger from Solve Intelligence’s Munich office, previously a patent litigator at Hogan Lovells
Technology That Keeps the Attorney in Control
Maiwald’s adoption of Solve isn’t about replacing what makes the firm exceptional. Its attorneys bring deep scientific training, decades of prosecution and litigation experience, and a record of securing and defending consequential patents.
What Solve does is take the mechanical work off their plate, so they can focus where their expertise decides outcomes: prosecution and opposition strategy, the analysis behind a dispute, portfolio positioning, and multi-jurisdictional filing and litigation across the EPO, the national courts and the UPC. For a firm that has spent decades defining excellent IP practice in Europe, that is exactly the right use of AI.
1 ChemDraw® is a registered trade mark of Revvity Signals Software, Inc.
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