After a 13-year career in the legal & patent department of Plasser & Theurer railway construction machinery, the engineer Anton Burger founded ABP in Austria in 1979. Starting in 1995, Anton Burger also worked for ABP in Switzerland as a Swiss patent attorney.
ABP PATENT NETWORK AG was founded in Switzerland in early 2013 as a subsidiary of ABP PATENT NETWORK GmbH in Austria, in addition to the office in Hong Kong. It has always been and still is the vision of Anton Burger to offer all IP services to industrial enterprises, in order to enable them to secure and strengthen their position on the international market.