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Technology, Media and Telecommunication | Patents and Life Sciences | Arbitration and Litigation | Trademarks, Design & Advertising

Reinhard Oertli has acted for a broad range of clients in the telecommunications and media sector, focusing on internet and cross-technology solutions. He has represented clients in administrative procedures, litigation and arbitration, and has helped to develop and structure business models in the area of new technologies. Reinhard Oertli regularly advises on outsourcing projects.

Of Counsel with MLL Legal (since 2024), Of Counsel and head of the IT/IP service line in a major business advisory and auditing firm in Zurich (1999–2003), Associate in a major business advisory and auditing firm in Zurich (1993–1998), Admitted to the bar in New York (1990), Associate with internationally active business law firms in Zurich and Philadelphia (1988–1992), Admitted to the bar in Switzerland (1988)

German, English, Italian, French

Former Ordinary Judge at the Court of Cassation of the Canton of Zurich, Member of the board of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property Switzerland (AIPPI), Member of the standing committee on design right of AIPPI International, American Bar Association (ABA), Swiss Institute for IP rights (INGRES), The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, Legal Chapter, Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Svizzera, Associazione Internazionale Giuristi di Lingua Italiana (AIGLI), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik (DGRI), Zürcher Anwaltsverband (ZAV)

University of Pennsylvania Law School, LL.M. (1989), University of Zurich, Dr. iur. (1988), Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany (1985), University of Zurich, lic. iur. (1982)