Vossius & Partner

Biology & Biotechnology

PARTNER
Patentanwalt, European Patent Attorney
Swiss Patent Attorney
UPC Representative

In 2012, Dr. Marchand joined VOSSIUS in Munich. In 2017, he transferred to Basel office and became a partner of the firm in 2020. His practice is focused on strategic portfolio advice and value generation through IP. He also regularly prepares portfolio and risk assessments for investors and capital providers.

He contributed the Swiss chapter to the book “Antibody Patenting: A Practitioner's Guide to Drafting, Prosecution and Enforcement” (Kluwer Law International, 2023). Furthermore, he is the author of several articles on patent law topics and regular speaker, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence and its impact on patent law.

German, French, English, Japanese (basics)

Dr. Marchand is the exclusive IP partner of Baselaunch-Accelerator. In addition, he has been accredited by the Swiss government as an Innosuisse Special Coach for IP.

Dr. Philipp Marchand, born in 1986 in Cologne, studied biochemistry at the TU Darmstadt and University of Frankfurt am Main, where he graduated in 2008 in the field of membrane biophysics and solid-state NMR. From 2009 to 2012, Dr. Marchand worked on his doctorate at the Institut de chimie des substances naturelles (ICSN) in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. There and at the École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, he investigated the mechanism of multi-drug resistance by ABC transporters. He also performed structural studies of prion proteins by solid-state NMR.