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Michael Ritscher is recognised as one of the most experienced and esteemed IP litigators and arbitrators in Switzerland, and beyond. Michael Ritscher heads MLL’s  IP group. He has extensive practise in advising and representing clients from a broad variety of sectors, including life sciences, luxury goods and retail. Michael Ritscher is often at the forefront of precedent-setting cases. He is a reference for companies which regularly seek his support to handle their cross-border contentious affairs involving Swiss, EU and international law. Michael Ritscher appears as an opinion leader in his field in client and peer feedback ratings.

Partner and head of the IP-team with MLL (since 1994), Associate with MLL (1991–1993), Worked at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Munich (1989–1991), Associate with Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, New York/Washington DC (1988–1989), Associate with a leading corporate law firm, Zurich (1985–1988)

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President of the Institute for Industrial Property INGRES

Visiting scholar at Stanford University Law School (1989), Georgetown University Center of Law, LL.M. (1989), Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law, Munich (1987), Research Assistant at the University of Zurich, Faculty of Intellectual Property Rights (1984–1985), University of Zurich, lic. iur. (1983)