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Lenz & Staehelin

Life Sciences: Patent Litigation

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Lenz & Staehelin

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Advising both start-ups and multinationals, we cover all areas of healthcare and life sciences law, including patent litigation and arbitration, and have specialist experience litigating around biosimilars. We also advise on regulatory issues surrounding medical devices and pharmaceuticals – handling all related litigation – and play an active role in Life Sciences M&A, as well as licensing and technology transfer. 

Industries (10)

  • Patent litigation and arbitration
  • Regulatory issues including litigation related to pharmaceuticals, medical devices and plant protection products
  • Licensing and technology transfer
  • E-health
  • Advertising and unfair competition
  • Data protection
  • Financing
  • Competition and trade regulation
  • Tax
  • M&A

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Life Sciences: Patent Litigation - Switzerland

What the Team is Known For

Lenz & Staehelin is a respected team in the market with a strong transactional, regulatory and antitrust practice. The law firm often represents clients in patent infringement disputes and nullity proceedings, as well as disputes concerning trade marks and domain names. The team acts on second medical use matters and supplementary protection certificates. The lawyers have additional experience assisting with M&A transactions in the life sciences sphere. Lenz & Staehelin also advises on licensing and distribution issues.

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Work Highlights

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  • Lenz & Staehelin represented MSD in SPC infringement proceedings before the Swiss Federal Patent Court.

Strengths

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  • Lenz & Staehelin deeply understands our business, pain points and priorities. It is responsive, impressively fast with its turnaround times and strong at thinking strategically.

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  • The lawyers at Lenz & Staehelin listen, have a good understanding and execute according to the plan.

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  • The team offers great responsiveness and availability.

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  • They were able to understand the key needs we had and to provide solutions using different angles.

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  • Lenz & Staehelin matches our expectations in a very time-efficient way.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Thierry Calame
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    Thierry Calame

    Thierry Calame remains a leading name in the market and assists with patent nullity proceedings and infringement litigation for a portfolio of significant Swiss and international pharmaceutical companies.

    • Thierry Calame is good at client handling. He provides all the options and adds his opinions.

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Ranked Individuals at Lenz & Staehelin (1)

Switzerland

Members

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  • Sevan Antreasyan

  • Stephan Erni

  • Xavier Favre-Bulle

  • Harold Frey

  • Jacques Iffland

  • Peter Ling

  • Andreas Rötheli

  • Guy Vermeil

  • Federico Trabaldo Togna

  • Thierry Calame

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