Christoph Gasser

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Law; Information Technology and Communication Law; Licensing Law; Media Law; Trademark Law; Copyright Law; Patent Law; Litigation in Civil and Commercial Matters; Arbitration Law.

Career

University of Bern (lic. iur. 1994; Dr. iur. 1997); University of Michigan Law School (LL.M. 1998); Partner at Staiger, Schwald & Partner Ltd. (2004); Non-permanent Judge at the Swiss Federal Patent Court (2011); Partner at BianchiSchwald LLC (2017); Managing Director of INGRES Swiss Intellectual Property Association (2007).

Professional Memberships

INGRES Swiss Intellectual Property Association; INTA International Trademark Association; ECTA European Community Trademark Association; AIPPI International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property; LES Licensing Executives Society International.

Publications

- Revision of competition law: extension of the prohibition of abusive practices under cartel law and introduction of a ban on geo-blocking (with Stephanie Volz, Newsletter BianchiSchwald, May 2021)

- Copyright Levies in Swiss Copyright Law (sic! 2020, 475 ff.)

- Extended Collective Licenses in Swiss Copyright Law (Art. 43a URG) (with Thierry Burnens, in: Peter Mosimann (Hg.), Das revidierte Urheberrecht, Basel 2020, 129 ff.)

- New federal data protection act for Switzerland (with Thierry Burnens and Stephanie Volz, Newsletter BianchiSchwald, October 2020)

- Treatise on several articles of the Swiss Patent Act (Art. 35, 35a, 35b, 36, 36a and 48) (Mark Schweizer/Herbert Zech (Hg.), Patentgesetz (PatG), Bern 2019)

- Treatise on several articles of the Swiss Trademark Act (Art. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 32, 33, 34, 35a, 35b and 35c) (Michael Noth/Gregor Bühler/Florent Thouvenin (Hg.), Markenschutzgesetz (MSchG), 2nd edition, Bern 2017)

- Treatise on several articles of the Swiss Copyright Act (Art. 19, 20 and 24 URG) (in: Barbara K. Müller/Reinhard Oertli (Hg.), Urheberrechtsgesetz (URG), 2nd edition, Bern 2012)

- Supplementary Protection Certificate (in: Roland von Büren/Lucas David (Hg.), Patentrecht und Know-how, unter Einschluss von Gentechnik, Software und Sortenschutz, SIWR IV, Basel et al. 2006, 681 ff.)

- Fair Use in Copyright Law (Dissertation, Bern 1997)