Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law, Digitalization and Communication

Information technology and outsourcing

Thanks to our specialists’ networks, we are able to offer comprehensive legal services in the IT and telecommunications sector.

We advise providers and users of IT solutions specifically in complex outsourcing and insourcing projects, sales and licensing agreements, the Internet and data protection issues (including e-commerce, online markets, etc.). We represent telecommunications companies over the entire spectrum of regulatory affairs, in particular, the interconnection of fixed and mobile networks.

Intellectual property and technology transfer

Branding and the development of innovative products and solutions are important key factors for sustainable corporate development.

We advise and represent our clients in all matters of copyright, trademark, design and patent law as well as unfair competition. Our expertise covers traditional and new media, the entertainment industry, and the art sector. In addition to licensing and exploitation law, our core competencies also include strategic property rights issues and law enforcement.

Trade and distribution agreements

Our team offers contractual support in all areas of development, production and procurement, product and service protection, marketing and distribution. Legal services include, in particular, the drafting, negotiation, implementation and enforcement of contracts, negotiations and proceedings with state institutions and the provision of expert opinions for private and public organizations, in particular in the following sectors:

• Sales strategies including sales, agency, franchise and licensing agreements
• 2B and B2C online transactions
• Production and maintenance contracts
• Service and quality management contracts
• Marketing, media and sponsorship contracts
• Transport contracts, guarantees, and letters of credit
• General Terms and Conditions

Our experience is as follows

• Drafting standard contract documents for manufacturers of building facades, including general terms and conditions for purchase and sale as well as general delivery and service agreements
• Drafting standard contract documents for a company active in the field of contract research
• Drafting international distribution agreements for a manufacturer of high-quality machinery

Our most recent experience includes information technology

• Representing a medical device manufacturer that develops its software in accordance with an open source strategy
• Advising a leading supplier of automotive parts in the structuring of its web platform for global operations

Intellectual property (including advertising)

• Advising food manufacturers and producers of non-prescription phytopharmaceuticals on the promotion of health-related claims
• Consultancy and drafting complex licensing agreements for pharmaceutical companies
• Advising pharmaceutical companies on research collaborations with universities
• Registration of hundreds of brands for large Swiss companies
• Advising a major sports brand on counterfeiting issues
• Transferring brand portfolios and brand coexistence agreements (particularly in the field of health and services)

Commercial contracts

• Drafting standard contract documentation for the supply of building facades, including general sales, purchase, delivery and service contracts
• Drafting standard contract documentation for research organizations