VISCHER
Lawyers
Stefan Kohler
- Phone+41 58 211 34 19
- Email[email protected]
Work Department
Intellectual Property Law, including Litigation and Arbitration Law; Healthcare Law, Pharmaceutical Law, Biotechnology Law, Law on Medical Devices; Regulatory Aspects of Life Sciences/New Technologies; Technology Transfer; Product Liability; Law against Unfair Competition; Advertising Law; Commercial Contracts; Data Protection; Administrativ Proceedings.
Position
Partner; Co-head VISCHER Life Sciences Team; Head VISCHER IP Team
Career
Lecturer at University of St Gallen (since 2007); Research Fellow(biosciences/biotechnology); Legal Research Assistant at the University of St Gallen; Clerkship and Associate with international corporate law firms in Zurich; Legal Counsel with a US-based (New Jersey) multinational pharmaceutical company; Consulting expert on the Swiss Federal legislation on biotechnology and pharmaceuticals; associate judge at Swiss Federal Patent Court.
Languages
German, English.
Memberships
Zurich Bar Association; Swiss Bar Association; International Bar Association; Licensing Executive Society Switzerland (LES-CH) (Board Member); Forum for Genetic Research of the Swiss Academy of Sciences; International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI); INGRES - Institute for industrial property; Board Member of BioLaw Europe; Board Member of the Swiss Healthcare Association (SHS).
Education
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Natural Sciences (dipl. sc. nat. ETH, 1994); University of St Gallen, Legal studies (lic. iur., 1997); University of St Gallen/ETH Zurich (Dr. iur., 2004).