Leopold Gruner founded white ip and is its managing partner. He is a German patent attorney and a professional representative before the European Patent Office, with more than ten years’ experience in Munich, Düsseldorf and Dresden; he started out as a scientist. His handbook on European and international patent procedure, “Verfahrenspraxis EPÜ und PCT”, is in its seventh edition. At mar:lean he brings white ip’s method and patent practice into both tools.
Works on
mar:val and mar:ker
Background
Doctorate in chemistry; patent attorney in Munich, Düsseldorf and Dresden; trainer at the epi for European patent attorneys
Björn Glawe is a software developer at Nibiru Systems and works on mar:val. He develops the interactive dashboards and the data processing behind them, and the parts mar:val shares with mar:ker.
Works on
mar:val, and where it connects with mar:ker
Expertise
Web applications, interactive dashboards, data processing
Marvin Arnold
CTO
Nibiru Systems
Marvin Arnold is CTO and lead data scientist at Nibiru Systems, which he runs with Anton Bosse. He leads the technical side of the company’s data science and AI projects for clients, and the development of its own data-driven products, among them mar:val and mar:ker.
Works on
mar:val, mar:ker and their shared data foundation
Background
Managing director of Nibiru Systems since 2022, on the technical side
Expertise
Machine learning, deep learning, data pipelines, software architecture
Anton Bosse
CEO
Nibiru Systems
Anton Bosse is CEO of Nibiru Systems and leads its data science consulting and the business side of the company. His expertise in mathematics and finance shapes how the company approaches a client’s problem, and it flows into the financial analyses in mar:val.
Works on
The platform, and the financial analyses in mar:val
Background
Managing director of Nibiru Systems since 2022, on the business side
Expertise
Mathematical modelling, financial markets, data science consulting, strategy
Jakob Vogler
Working student
Nibiru Systems
Jakob Vogler is a working student at Nibiru Systems. He works on mar:val and mar:ker alike and supports the development of both tools with new features, tests and data preparation.
Works on
mar:val and mar:ker
Expertise
Software development, testing, data preparation
Marco Hauschild
Software developer
Nibiru Systems
Marco Hauschild is a software developer at Nibiru Systems and works on mar:ker. He develops the editor in which patent attorneys draft applications with AI, from claims and description to figures and export, and its connection to mar:val.
Works on
mar:ker, and where it connects with mar:val
Expertise
Web applications, AI-assisted workflows, document generation
Max Drogla
Working student
white ip
Max Drogla is a working student at white ip, where he specialises in technology consulting and patent evaluation. For mar:val he helps set up client projects and their analyses.
Max Hilarius looks after sales and business development for mar:lean at white ip. He is the first point of contact for companies and research institutes that want to work with mar:val or mar:ker, and he brings their needs back into the development of both tools.
Works on
mar:val and mar:ker
Expertise
Sales, business development, client relations
Two teams pool their expertise in technology and markets.
Nibiru Systems GmbH
Assesses a technology and its market in one tool.
white ip | Patent & Legal GmbH
Supports patent attorneys and in-house IP teams with AI for patent applications and office action responses.
How expert knowledge became a platform.
Summer 2025
white ip was already pairing its patent work with market analyses for clients, following a structured method that links a technology to its market through patent data. Nibiru Systems brought in its expertise in data processing, data pipelines and AI, and together the two companies set out to digitise that method.
Since early 2026
Nibiru Systems built the data and analysis pipelines behind mar:val and developed the method further together with white ip. In parallel came mar:ker, which brings patent attorney work into a digital workflow: Nibiru’s AI engineering combined with the practice of white ip’s patent attorneys, led by Leopold Gruner, who wants technology to move the profession forward.
Today
mar:val was first conceived for research institutes, for R&D and market reports that used to be delivered as static documents. Extensively validated, it now delivers them as interactive dashboards, with far more analysis than a document can hold.
Next
We are extending mar:val to due diligence, M&A, freedom to operate and other decisions that rest on market insight. Nibiru Systems is building the shared data foundation for both tools, from a connected patent database and its own analysis pipelines. mar:ker gains from it as well, in novelty, state-of-the-art and patentability analyses.
Today
DEMO REQUEST
See the tools on your own case.
Thirty minutes, no obligation. We show mar:val on a report from your technology field, mar:ker on an invention disclosure from your practice, or both in one session.
