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
Two new members elected to the Institute Council
On 11 April 2018, the Federal Council elected Peter Walser, with effect from 1 May 2018, and Luc Amgwerd, with effect from 1 July 2018, as new members of the Institute Council of the IPI.
Peter Walser is a Swiss and European patent attorney, and has been a partner in a Zurich patent attorney firm for many years. He succeeds Vincenzo Pedrazzini who resigned from the Institute Council at the end of 2017. For more than ten years, Luc Amgwerd was a legal consultant of an innovating enterprise and is now the director of a spin-off company of this enterprise. He succeeds François Curchod, who is leaving the Institute Council mid-2018.
The nine-member Institute Council is the IPI's supreme supervisory body with regard to the operational management of the IPI. It sets the level of the fees, and approves the budget, the Annual Report and the Annual Financial Statement. In addition, it determines the composition of the Executive Board (with the exception of the Director General, who is elected by the Federal Council).