Dr. Michael Ritscher, LL.M.

Partner, Zurich
meyerlustenberger | lachenal
Rechtsanwälte | Attorneys at law
Forchstrasse 452 | Postfach 1432 | 8032 Zürich | Switzerland
T +41 44 396 91 91 | F +41 44 396 91 92
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Practice Areas

Trademarks, Design and Advertising | Patents and Pharmaceutical Law | Arbitration and Litigation

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Partner and head of the IP-team with Meyerlustenberger Lachenal (since 1994)

Associate with meyerlustenberger (1991–1993)

Worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Munich (1989–1991)

Visiting scholar at Stanford University Law School (1989)

Georgetown University Center of Law, LL.M. (1989)

Associate with Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, New York/Washington DC (1988–1989)

Admitted to the bar in Switzerland (1988)

Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law, Munich (1987)

Associate with a leading corporate law firm, Zurich (1985–1988)

University of Zurich, Dr. iur. (1985)

Research Assistant at the University of Zurich, Faculty of Intellectual Property Rights (1984–1985)

University of Zurich, lic. iur. (1983)

Admission

All Swiss courts

Languages

German, English, French

Publications

Country Report about Unfair Competition in Switzerland | Henning Bodewig (ed.): International Handbook on Unfair Competition, C.H. Beck - Hart - Nomos, Germany 2012, p. 547-582 | PDF

Besprechung des Kommentars von Christopher Brückner: Ergänzende Schutzzertifikate mit pädiatrischer Laufzeitverlängerung | sic! 9/2012, 595 f.

Patentrecht - Entwicklungen 2011 | njus.ch, Stämpfli Verlag, Bern 2012 | www

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Memberships

AIPPI Switzerland, AIPLA, ALAI, CEDIDAC, Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrechte e.V., ASEC, SF, LES, INTA, Vereinigung Schweizerischer Unternehmen in Deutschland (VSUD)

Other Activities

Adjunct professor for Intellectual Property Law at the University of Lucerne

President of the Institute for Industrial Property INGRES

Co-editor of the Journal on Intellectual Property, Competition and Communication Law sic! 

Judge at the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich

Assistant(s)

  • Tina Steingruber