Competition & Trade / IP & TMT / Life Sciences / Litigation & Arbitration

Lara Dorigo is partner and heads the Intellectual Property group at Pestalozzi. She has profound experience in every field of intellectual property law with a particular affinity for technology-related issues. Her practice focuses on IP enforcement and defence, technology transfer agreements and branding strategies.

Lara is a passionate IP litigator and licensing specialist. She has extensive experience with pharmaceutical and biologics patent litigation before courts and arbitral tribunals, including disputes regarding small molecules, monoclonal antibodies, biosimilars, immunotherapies, diagnostics and SPCs. Lara also handles cases in the fields of medtech, chemistry and mechanics and she equally enjoys acting in trademark, copyright and unfair competition litigation.

In addition, Lara advises clients on branding strategies, parallel import and grey market issues, selective distribution agreements and entertainment law. She provides transactional and legal support to her clients on licensing, R&D agreements, and other sorts of technology transfer agreements and issues, and she advises on life sciences regulatory matters.

Lara is also a non-permanent judge of the Federal Patent Court. She is the author of many publications and a frequent speaker on IP and licensing topics.

Partner at Pestalozzi (2022), Appointed as non-permanent judge of the Swiss Federal Patent Court (2017), Counsel at Lenz & Staehelin in Zurich, Senior Associate in the IP Litigation Group of Allen & Overy in London (2009/2010), Associate at Lenz & Staehelin in Zurich (2003), Bar admission: Switzerland (St. Gallen, 2003), Law clerk at District Court of Rheintal (St. Gallen, 2002), Junior lawyer at a major Swiss law firm in Zurich (2001)

German, English, Italian

European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Licensing Executives Society (LES), International Trademark Association (INTA), Member of the Parallel Imports Team, Association of European Trade Mark Owners (MARQUES), Member of the Amicus Curiae Team, Institut für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (INGRES), Swiss Bar Association, Zurich Bar Association

New York University School of Law: LL.M. in Trade Regulation (2005/2006), University of St. Gallen: lic. iur. (2001)