Dr. Michael Ritscher, LL.M.

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• Patents and Pharmaceutical Law

Partner and head of the IP-team with meyerlustenberger (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)

Patent Litigation in Switzerland – At the Brink of a New Era | in: Hansen / Schüssler-Langeheine (eds): Patent Practice in Japan and Europe, Kluwer Law International, Netherlands, 2011, 211–219 | PDF

Entwicklungen im Patentrecht 2009 | in: njus.ch, Prof. Dr. Hans-Ueli Vogt (Hrsg.)

Entwicklungen im Patentrecht 2008 | njus.ch 2009 | www

AIPPI Switzerland, AIPLA, ALAI, CEDIDAC, Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrechte e.V., ASEC, SF, LES, INTA

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