Dr Peter Schramm > MLL Legal > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
MLL Legal Offices
SCHIFFBAUSTRASSE 2
POSTFACH
8031 ZÜRICH
Switzerland
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Dr Peter Schramm
Work Department
Trademarks, Design & Advertising | Patents and Life Sciences | Competition, Antitrust and Trade Law
Position
Peter Schramm heads the firm’s trademark & design group comprising lawyers from the firm’s Zurich, Geneva and Brussels offices. He represents clients in all aspects of IP law, including IP advisory, prosecution, litigation and arbitration. Peter Schramm has wide ranging experience in trademark, copyright, design and unfair competition issues, is well known for his trade dress and design law expertise and has been involved in several leading cases in Switzerland and abroad. He advises Swiss and international clients from various industries, with a strong focus on retail, pharma, luxury brands, fashion, machine tools and furniture manufacturers. Peter leads the firm’s global trademark and design task force that coordinates the cross-border IP issues of several Swiss companies and exchanges and develops know-how within the firm and its network of partner firms. He is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish.
Career
Partner with MLL (since 2014), Secondment with Wuersch & Gering LLP, New York, USA (2010), Associate with MLL (2007–2013), Trademark lawyer with the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern (2005–2007), Associate with a German IP law firm (2004–2005), Trainee with Hogan Lovells, Alicante (2003), Legal Trainee at the District Court of Saarbrücken (2001–2003)
Languages
German, English, French, Spanish
Memberships
Swiss Institute for IP rights (INGRES), German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR), International Trademark Association (INTA), Vice Chair of the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA), Association of Intellectual Property Experts (VPP), Association of Swiss companies in Germany (VSUD)
Education
Saarland University, Dr. iur. (2005), University of Konstanz (1998–2000), University of Salamanca (1997–1998), Saarland University (1995–1997)
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Sports law
Helmed by Jean Marguerat and Peter Schramm, MLL Legal
works with a wide variety of football, cycling, beach volleyball and gymnastics clients across the spectrum of contentious and non-contentious sports mandates, such as contract negotiation and litigation. Marguerat excels on the disputes side, whereas Schramm bolsters the firm’s offering with his extensive expertise on the IP side of the sports sector. Dmitry A Pentsov and Urs Boller are also recommended.
Switzerland > Intellectual property
The ‘outstanding’ MLL Legal, praised for its ‘very client oriented and reliable approach’, has an impressive workload that spans patent, trade mark and design litigation, as well as challenging pharma and medtech matters. The practice is jointly led by ‘consummate IP lawyer’ Michael Ritscher
, who possesses a strong grounding in international patent and trade mark disputes as well as IP commercialisation; Simon Holzer, a prominent practitioner on the life sciences side; and Peter Schramm. Ulrike Ciesla fuses her pharma and litigation capabilities to bolster the team’s patent offering, and Louisa Galbraith is accomplished in managing 3D trade mark and non-conventional trade mark issues.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
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- Dispute resolution: arbitration