Andri Hess

Andri Hess is a partner and a member of Homburger’s IP / IT, Litigation, Arbitration, Competition and Regulatory practice teams.

Andri Hess joined Homburger in 1999 and became Partner in 2009. Andri Hess is elected associate judge at the Swiss Federal Patent Court. He regularly holds presentations before Swiss and international professional associations, and he teaches at the Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (training course for the Swiss Patent Bar exam).

Andri Hess is a board member of the Swiss group of AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle) and a member of the Communications Committee and Standing Committee on Client Attorney Privilege of AIPPI International. Moreover, he is a member of ASA (Swiss Arbitration Association), GRUR (Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V.), INGRES (Institut für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz) as well as of the Zurich and Swiss Bar Associations.

Andri Hess published numerous articles in various intellectual property and especially in patent rights related topics and contributed to the leading Swiss commentary on the Patent Act.