Representing clients in front of arbitral tribunals and the national and international Patent Offices mainly in patent, trademark, design, copyright, IT, competition and license law. Special expertise in Software, Business Model and Services protection, General patent prosecution and litigation, information technologies (IT), electronics, mobile communication and telecommunication, as well as Nano-technology, bio-chemistry, insurance and capital market (financing) technologies.
Dr. Dr. Fabian Leimgruber LL.M.
European and Swiss Patent Lawyer, Partner
Dr. Dr. Fabian Leimgruber LL.M.
Fields of activity
Protection of software, business models and services
Patent grant proceedings, patent infringement proceedings and opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office, the Swiss Patent Office and the Swiss and German Federal Patent Court
Specialization in the field of information technology (IT) as well as electrical engineering and telecommunications, nano-technology, bio-chemistry, insurance and capital market (financing) technologies
Profile
Dr of Physics (Ph.D.), Dr of Law (J.D.), Master of Laws (LL.M.)
Senior patent attorney, many years' experience as patent attorney in major patent firms in Bern and Basel with focus on electronics, mobile communication technology, IT, net-work technology, business method and software patenting and prosecution. Implemen-tation and leading of international and national patent infringement and nullity actions. International, Asian and European arbitration work in commercial and IP law with spe-cific experience of IP enforcement in Asia. IP Due-Diligence in M&A procedures.
Research fellowship at the University of Basel's Faculty of Law.
Research fellow at the Department of Physics of the University of Basel, CERN and the University of Basel's Centre for Calculation in the areas of neuro-physics, high energy physics and IT technology.
Technical supervisor in several software development, network, mobile telecommunica-tion and IT projects.
Legal studies at the Universities of Basel and Freiburg i.Br.; postgraduate studies on in-ternational commercial law at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the East Chi-na University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) of Shanghai
Study of intellectual property law at the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)
Study of physics at the University of Basel and at CERN (Organisation Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) in Geneva
Born 1967; Languages: D/E/F/I/R
Memberships
Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi)
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb)
Swiss Physical Society (SPS)
Publications/presentations
Author of various specialist publications in the fields of intellectual property law, competition law, commercial law, international arbitration, as well as in the technical fields of neurophysics, high-energy physics, detector/trigger technology.