AWA Selects Qthena as its Strategic AI Platform for IP

Schaffhausen, Switzerland – December 16th, 2025 –

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ipQuants AG is proud to announce that AWA, a globally recognized intellectual property firm with more than 400 employees across Europe and Asia, has selected ipQuants’ Qthena platform as its strategic AI platform for IP workflows. This marks a major step in AWA’s long-term strategy to become a truly AI-powered law firm, delivering even higher-quality outcomes and greater efficiency to its clients worldwide.

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A Future-Focused Firm Putting Client Interests First

AWA has spent several years evaluating AI solutions with a single guiding principle: technologies must meaningfully advance client interests while maintaining the highest professional standards. Through this rigorous process, AWA concluded that the firms of the future will distinguish themselves not simply by using AI but by knowing how to deploy AI responsibly, effectively, and strategically.

Qthena stood out because it enables attorneys to remain fully in control, protects work product integrity and quality, and delivers significant time savings – all within a secure, legal-grade digital workspace purpose-built for legal workflows.

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Selecting the Best Tools on the Market

Given its focus on providing the best possible service to its clients, AWA naturally applies a high bar when selecting tools. After evaluating the AI market and deploying Qthena in structured pilot groups across several practice areas for more than two years, AWA concluded that ipQuants delivers the strongest combination of workflow depth, document analysis, safety, and output quality with its Qthena solution.

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A decisive factor in the selection was explained by Henrik Aurell, Partner at AWA, who noted:

“Qthena is the first solution we have seen that truly embraces how attorneys work. It understands the practical workflow, the decisions we make, and how we need to collaborate with an AI assistant. That makes it the most effective solution for our teams.”

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A Strategic Partnership with a Pioneer in AI for IP

AWA also highlighted the importance of partnering with an organization that has been pioneering digital assistants for legal professionals since 2021, long before the current wave of generative AI adoption. ipQuants’ deep expertise across AI, data, workflow automation, and IP practice positions the company uniquely to support leading global firms in their transformation.

ipQuants brings together a seasoned team of IP professionals, data experts, and AI specialists, giving the company a unique, end-to-end understanding of the industry it serves. Commenting on the partnership, Tony Afram, CEO of ipQuants AG, said:

“We genuinely love our customers, so we get especially excited when we meet law firms that do too. Too many firms have stayed on the sidelines despite knowing that fully embracing AI solutions is in the best interest of their clients. Seeing a global player like AWA commit to achieving the highest levels of productivity and quality – while keeping client interests at the center – gets us extremely excited and motivates us to support AWA in overachieving in this endeavor.”

As to what ipQuants brings to the partnership, Tony Afram commented:

"ipQuants started building a digital strategy assistant at a time when almost no one had this on their radar. We have industry experts across all relevant fields in our team, and we combine that with access to proprietary data sources as well as high-quality patent, trademark and design data through our Questel partnership. This unique combination allows us to explore and develop services that no other company in the industry can, while always putting quality first in everything we do.”

The two organizations will collaborate closely to develop AI-first services and next-generation workflow solutions for AWA’s global client base.

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About AWA

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‍ AWA is a leading intellectual property firm with more than 400 employees across 20+ offices in Belgium, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. The firm delivers a full-service offering in prosecution, dispute litigation, aftermarket services, legal advice, strategy and commercialisation. Founded in 1897, AWA supports innovative companies ranging from start-ups to global industry leaders.

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For more information, please visit AWA.com

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About Qthena

Qthena is the legal digital assistant, purpose-built for patent and trademark professionals. Trusted by hundreds of law firms and corporate IP teams across 30+ countries, Qthena enables teams to draft, review, analyze, and manage complex IP work faster, with greater consistency, and full transparency.

Developed from the ground up by IP attorneys, Qthena reflects how IP professionals actually work. Its generative AI operates within defined guardrails, delivering sourced and traceable outputs with transparent limitations - allowing teams to reduce manual workload, strengthen quality control, and scale expertise.

From patent drafting and office action responses to trademark portfolio management, Qthena helps IP teams reduce turnaround times, standardize best practices, and focus on higher-value, strategic work.

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Qthena is developed by ipQuants AG, a Switzerland-based SaaS company, and is powered by Questel, a global leader in intellectual property and innovation management solutions.

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Discover more about Qthena at www.questel.com/qthena, and follow Qthena on LinkedIn to stay updated on the latest insights, news, and expert articles.

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