LALIVE‘s intellectual property practice represents corporates, NGOs, and individuals on a broad range of IP matters, including trademarks, designs, domain names, copyright, and unfair competition. The team is particularly active in IP-related arbitration proceedings. Practice head Thomas Widmer handles the full range of contentious and non-contentious matters relating to IP law.
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Work highlights
- Acting as counsel to a global supplier of integrated gambling and gaming systems in a €25m ICC arbitration against an operator in the gaming industry concerning the alleged breach of a limited license for the use of IT products.
- Representing a multinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation in civil proceedings against a Swiss bank which is inter alia claiming access to the source code of various software interfaces developed by the client in a frame of a global IT service agreement.
- Advising a non-profit organisation funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in drafting and negotiating several contractual agreements in relation to intellectual property issues and the mitigation of the consequences of the various event cancellations due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Thomas Widmer