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Your trusted partner in intellectual property

You are always looking for something new.

  • You turn ideas into functional products that make life easier and add value for your customers.
  • You design products that move people.
  • You create brands that help people find their way through the variety of products on offer.
  • You have a keen ear for people’s needs.

But how do you secure this lead?

Our practice areas

Practice areas

Protection for technology, brand and form.

From the first search through filing to enforcement before offices and courts: we support your intellectual property rights throughout their entire life cycle.

Patents

01

Representation before patent offices and courts

  • Filing of patents and utility models
  • Infringement actions
  • Opposition proceedings
  • Nullity actions and cancellation proceedings

Further services

  • Searches for existing rights and prior art
  • Competitor monitoring
  • Infringement opinions
  • Valuation of patents and utility models

Trademarks

02

Representation before trademark offices and courts

  • Filing of trademarks
  • Infringement actions
  • Opposition proceedings
  • Cancellation proceedings

Further services

  • Searches for existing trademarks
  • Watch services for conflicting later trademarks
  • Infringement opinions
  • Valuation of trademarks

Designs

03

Representation in

  • Filing of design rights
  • Infringement actions and preliminary injunctions
  • Border seizures
  • Cancellation proceedings

Further services

  • Searches for existing rights
  • Watch services for conflicting later rights
  • Infringement opinions
  • Valuation of design rights

Licensing

04

Contract drafting

  • Licence agreements
  • Research and development agreements

The firm

The firm was founded in 2001. That was, as the saying goes: fondé dans un bon moment.

Cornerstone I

Reliability

We are upfront about it: we cannot do everything ourselves. That is why we work closely with selected attorneys in Switzerland and abroad – so that you are always well advised, wherever you need protection.

Cornerstone II

Continuity

Most of our client relationships have existed for many years. We have been advising some of our clients for more than 20 years.

Cornerstone III

Your language

We listen – and we speak your language.

2001
Firm founded
CH · DE · EU
Qualified in Switzerland, Germany and at European level
30+ years
Experience in intellectual property

Profile

Engineer and patent attorney.

Technical understanding gained in industry, legal precision before offices and courts – qualified in Switzerland, Germany and at European level.

Technical focus

  • Sensors
  • Automotive
  • Elevators and escalators
  • Painting technology
  • Photovoltaics
  • Circuit design
  • Measurement and control
  • Mobile communications
  • Software
  • Mechanical engineering

Career

  1. Studies at the Technical University of Munich, graduating as Dipl.-Ing. (Univ.) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

  2. Patent department of Siemens AG, first for research and development, later for semiconductors. Then head of the patent law department at the Schindler Group.

  3. Studies in civil law at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

  4. Foundation of the firm

Admitted before the following patent offices and courts

  • EPOEuropean Patent Office
  • EUIPOEuropean Union Intellectual Property Office
  • DPMAGerman Patent and Trade Mark Office
  • BPatGFederal Patent Court, Germany
  • BGHFederal Court of Justice, Germany
  • IGESwiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
  • BPatGerFederal Patent Court, Switzerland
  • WIPOWorld Intellectual Property Organization

Memberships

  • Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi)patentepi.org ↗
  • German Federal Chamber of Patent Attorneyspatentanwalt.de ↗
  • German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)grur.org ↗

Careers

Our firm is on the move.

We are always happy to make time for interesting people with good ideas. Perhaps we will find a way to work together.

Get in touch

Contact

Let’s talk about your lead.

We look forward to hearing from you – by email, by phone or in person in Wädenswil on Lake Zurich.

Address
Patentanwaltskanzlei Nückel
Eichweidstrasse 22
8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland

Wädenswil office

Eichweidstrasse 22 · 8820 Wädenswil

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