Peter Ling

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property, Litigation and Arbitration, Technology and Outsourcing

Career

Peter Ling is a partner specialising in intellectual property, unfair competition and life sciences law. He represents clients in litigation before Swiss courts and governmental authorities and in arbitration proceedings. Peter also advises on licensing and IP structuring transactions, and on strategic IP issues. Peter is a member of the board of the Licensing Executives Society Switzerland (LES-CH) and the Counsel of the Board of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI). He is an active member of AIPPI's Standing Committee on TRIPS and of the new INTA Patents Committee. Peter is a lecturer of intellectual property law at ETH Zurich and he teaches civil procedure law at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property.

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i. Br., Germany (visiting student, 2003), University of Fribourg i. Ue. (lic. iur., 2004), University of Lausanne (Assistant of Prof. F. Dessemontet, 2004/07), Swiss Bar Admission (2010), Joined Lenz & Staehelin (2010), Columbia Law School (LL.M., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 2012/13), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (2020)

Professional Memberships

Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), Swiss Bar Association (SAV), Center for Business Law of the University of Lausanne (CEDIDAC), Institut für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (INGRES), Licensing Executives Society Switzerland (LES-CH), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Munich IP Dispute Resolution Forum (IPDR Forum), European Patent Lawyers' Association (EPLAW), International Trademark Association (INTA)

Languages Spoken

German, French, English, Hungarian