Intellectual property law, including unfair competition, is the subject of considerable academic interest in Switzerland, comprising a field of study since the 19th century up to the year 2020. Scholars in particular include Professors Rolf Bär, Carl Baudenbacher, Stephan Bechtfeld, Denis Barrelet, François Curchod, Eugen David, François Dessemontet, Willi Egloff, Reto Hilty, Daniel Hürlimann, Carlo Govoni, Daniel Kraus, Max Kummer, Eugen Marbach, Mario M. Pedrazzini, Michael Rauber, Manfred Rehbinder, Cyrill Rigamonti, Nathalie Tissot, Alois Troller, Kamen Troller, Walter R. Schluep, Roland von Büren, Alois von Orelli and Jacques de Werra.
Category Archives: X. Swiss Academic Research in International Intellectual Property Law
Can exclusive licensees sue for the infringement of licensed IP rights
Jacques de Werra, ‘Can exclusive licensees sue for the infringement of licensed IP rights: A case study confirming the need to create global IP licensing rules’, 30 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Special Symposium 189-290 (2017).
Jacques de Werra – Can exclusive licensees sue for the infringement of licensed IP rights
Biodiversity and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge
Philippe Cullet, Christophe Germann, Andrea Nascimento Müller, and Gloria Pasadilla: ‘Intellectual Property Rights, Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge’, in: Susette Biber-Klemm, Thomas Cottier (eds.), Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives, 112- 154, Swiss Development Agency, World Trade Institute (Walingford and Cambridge Mass: Cabi Publishers 2006).
Philippe Cullet et al. – Intellectual Property Rights
Susette Biber-Klemm, ‘Origin and Allocation of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional PGRA: Basic Questions’, in: Susette Biber-Klemm, Thomas Cottier (eds.), Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives, 157-172 Swiss Development Agency, World Trade Institute (Walingford and Cambridge Mass: Cabi Publishers 2006).
Susette Biber-Klemm – Biodiversity and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge
Thomas Cottier and Marion Panizzon, ‘A New Generation of IPR for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge in PGR for Food, Agricultural and Pharmaceutical Uses’, in: Susette Biber-Klemm, Thomas Cottier (eds.), Rights to Plant Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Basic Issues and Perspectives, 203-238, Swiss Development Agency, World Trade Institute (Walingford and Cambridge Mass: Cabi Publishers 2006).
The Regulatory Framework for Digital Trade in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Mira Burri,’The Regulatory Framework for Digital Trade in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’, in: Peter Roffe, Xavier Seuba (eds.), Current Alliances in International Intellectual Property Law-Making, 66-87 (ICTSD/CEIPI Geneva 2017).
Burri – The Regulatory Framework in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Embedding Intellectual Property in International Law
Thomas Cottier, ‘Embedding Intellectual Property in International Law’, in: Peter Roffe, Xavier Seuba (eds.), Current Alliances in International Intellectual Property Law-Making, 15-44 (ICTSD/CEIPI Geneva 2017).
Cottier – Embedding Intellectual Property in International Law