For IP professionals
This is the portal for professionals working in the field of intellectual property. Here you'll find direct access to all necessary resources.
Quick links
- Trade Mark Database
- Register changes for trade marks
- Swissreg
- Madrid Monitor
- TMview
- E-trademark
- International trade mark registration
- Trade Mark Guidelines (German, French, Italian)
- Classification tool for trade marks
- Trade mark examination support tool
- Trade marks: Costs and fees
- Trade marks: WIPO fee calculator
- Cancellation procedure for trade marks on the grounds of non-use
- Protected public signs: Abbreviations
- Protected public signs: Other signs (emblems)
- Directory of Intellectual Property Offices
- Trade marks: News Service Archive
- Patents: Patent Examination Guidelines (German, French)
- Patents: Fees
Vice Director General and Head of Patent Division
Alban Fischer
Born in 1960, at the IPI since 1998
Dr. rer. nat., physicist, MBA Uni ZH
Professional career
- Vice Director General and Head of Patent Division
- Head of Customers and Products in the patent division
- Patent examiner and patent search expert in the IPI's patent division
- Member of the Executive Board, Project Manager and Head of IT at Künzler & Partner AG, environmental management and process engineering, Lucerne
- Assistant for solid state physics at the University of Fribourg