Barbara Abegg

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Litigation and Arbitration, Technology and Outsourcing

Career

Dr. Barbara Abegg joined Lenz & Staehelin in 2017 and is based at our Zurich office, where she specialises in intellectual property – mainly patent and trademark law – and unfair competition. Barbara represents clients in litigation before Swiss courts, arbitration proceedings and administrative matters before governmental authorities. She also regularly advises on a broad range of other intellectual property and unfair competition law matters. Barbara will be teaching unfair competition law at the University of Berne starting this year, 2024. She is regularly invited to talk about intellectual property at conferences and has published on a wide range of intellectual property topics.

University of Lucerne (lic. iur., 2007), Swiss Bar Admission (2008), University of Berne (Dr. iur., 2013), University of Oxford (MJur, 2017), joined Lenz & Staehelin (2017), CAS Arbitration (2022), Counsel at Lenz & Staehelin (2023)

Professional Memberships

International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR), European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA) (Member Copyright and WIPO Link Committee), Institut für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (INGRES), Zurich and Swiss Bar Association (ZAV, SAV)