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Dr Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser, LL.M.

Counsel

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Dr Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser, LL.M.

Counsel

T +41 44 285 11 11
F +41 44 285 11 22
CMS von Erlach Poncet Ltd.
Dreikönigstrasse 7
P.O. Box
8022 Zurich
Switzerland
Languages German, English, French, Italian

Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser advises and represents clients in connection with contentious and non-contentious issues relating to trademarks, designs, copyrights, patents, data protection, unfair competition and advertisement. She has substantial experience in the drafting and enforcement of contracts for the transfer of intellectual property rights, especially license agreements. She further regularly deals with all due diligence relevant IP/IT and data protection aspects of corporate transactions. Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser also focuses on anti-counterfeiting, including customs procedure.

Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser advises clients across a broad range of industry sectors, including listed as well as small and mid-cap companies and individuals. Her clients are among other information technology companies, pharmaceutical companies, mechanical engineering companies, insurance companies and banks as well as fashion and sport equipment producers and food and consumer goods producers.

Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser has been admitted to the bar in 1996 and has since been working for different patent attorney and law firms in Basel and Zurich. She publishes regularly in the field of intellectual property and unfair competition law and lectures since 2003 at the MAS Marketing and Management of the University of Basel.

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Relevant experience

  • Advising Gaydoul Group in connection with the sale of the trademark Navyboot.
  • Advising a US fashion producer in connection with anti-counterfeiting.
  • Advising and representing a client in the field of mechanical engineering in contentious trade secrete matter.
  • Advising CCC-Group in IP matters in connection with its acquisition of Karl Vögele AG.  
  • Advising a food stuff producer in all aspects of advertisement matters.
  • Advising Sunrise Communications AG in IP matters in connection with the sale of Swiss Towers AG.
  • Advising ABB in IP matters in connection with the acquisition of Keymile’s communication network business.  
  • Advising a pharmaceutical company regarding the protection and enforcement of their trademarks, ongoing.
  • Advising a global beverage producer on obtaining protection for product get-up.
  • Advising and representing a publishing house in connection with litigation on the continuation of a trademark license in the event of liquidation of the licensor.
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Education

  • 2002/2003: University of Cambridge (UK) – Master of Laws
  • 2000 – Doktorat, Dr. iur., summa cum laude, Universität Basel, Prof. Walther Hug Preis
  • 1988 – 1993: Universität Basel – Lizentiat, magna cum laude
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Memberships

  • ZAV (Zürcher Anwaltsverband)
  • SAV (Schweizerischer Anwaltsverband)
  • INGRES (Institut für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz)
  • LES (Licensing Executive Society, Switzerland)
  • ASAS (Association Suisse de droit de la concurrence)
  • Women in IP
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Publications

  • Brauchbar Birkhäuser Simone/Dirk Spacek, The Legal 500 & The In-House Lawyer Comparative Legal Guide Switzerland: Intellectual Property (3rd edition), July 2019
  • Brauchbar Birkhäuser Simone/Christen Marquard, International distribution and license agreements affected by recent Swiss competition law decisions, in CMS Law-Now of 4 March 2019, online-Publication
  • Change in law: Sales promotion sweepstakes under the new Money Games Act, in CMS Law-Now of 14 February 2019, online-publication
  • Brauchbar Birkhäuser Simone/Kesselring Felix, More Cocoa Powder for the Swiss? The Swiss view on the "Nutella gap", in: CMS Law-Now, December 2017, online Publication
  • Design Law: When it comes to watches details matter (4A_565/2016), CMS Law-Now (2017), online Publication
  • Revision of Novel Foods Regime in Switzerland, CMS Law-Now (2017), online Publication
  • Kommentar zu Artikel 2 und Artikel 3 Markenschutzgesetz, in: Lucas David/Markus Frick (Hrsg.), Markenschutzgesetz Wappenschutzgesetz, Basler Kommentar, 3. Auflage, Basel 2016, Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser (Co-Autorschaft mit Matthias Städeli)
  • Einleitung/Verhältnis des Lauterkeitsrechts zum Immaterialgüterrecht; Kommentierung von Art. 3 lit. d UWG (Co-Autorschaft mit Philippe Spitz); Kommentierung von Artikel 5 UWG; in: Peter Jung/Philippe Spitz (Hrsg.), Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG), 2. Auflage, Stämplis Handkommentar, Bern 2016, Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser
  • Geistiges Eigentum – Aschenputtel unter den Vermögenswerten, in: KMU-Magazin, Nr. 1/2, Januar/Februar 2016, S. 38 ff., Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser / Louis Lagler
  • Geistiges Eigentum – Die Rechtslage im Arbeitsverhältnis, in: KMU- Magazin, Nr. 10, Oktober 2016, S. 54 ff., Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser / Louis Lagler
  • Die Verwirkung im Kennzeichenrecht; unter Berücksichtigung der Regelung der Europäischen Union, Diss., Basel 2001, Basler Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft, Reihe A, Privatrecht, Bd. 57, Basel 2001, Simone Brauchbar
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Lectures list

  • "No Greenwashing" (together with Dr Heike Blank, CMS Cologne), CMS Consumer Products Conference 2019, Basel, 7 November, 2019
  • Bekämpfung der Produktepiraterie: Zollrechtliche Massnahmen sinnvoll eingesetzt - Schulthess Forum Intellectual Property 2019, Zurich, 12 June 2019
  • Datenschutzrecht und M&A (together with Dr Dirk Spacek and Dr Tobias Grau), CMS M&A Breakfast 2019, Zurich, 4 April 2019
  • Product Piracy – View from Switzerland, CMS Webinar, 6. Februar 2018
  • Blockchain – Token – Kryptowährungen, Lawyer's Lunch, 24 October 2017 more
  • Institute for industrial property rights (INGRES), Ittinger workshop on trademark rights – Strength and risks of trademarks (2017)
  • Since 2003 lecturer for Intellectual Property Law at the “Master of Advanced Studies in Marketing and Management” of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Basel
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Expertise

04 Dec 17
More Co­coa Powder for the Swiss? The Swiss view on the "Nu­tella gap"
Should Fer­rero, the pro­du­cer of Nu­tella, be hindered to pro­duce a Swiss-style Nu­tella just for the Swiss mar­ket with more co­coa powder than the "nor­mal" Nu­tella? On the as­sump­tion that Swiss con­sumers have a spe­cial taste, can Nestlé ad­just its Ness­presso cap­sules...
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Law-Now
14 Aug 17
Design Law: When it comes to watches de­tails mat­ter (4A_565/2016)
In Switzer­land every­one agrees: One watch is not like the oth­er watch and de­tails mat­ter. The Swiss Fed­er­al Su­preme Court in one of its rare cases in design mat­ters just con­firmed this view un­der sev­er­al as­pects (see here). The case in­volved two Swiss pro­du­cers...
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Law-Now
29 May 17
Re­vi­sion of Nov­el Foods Re­gime in Switzer­land
Nearly one quarter of the world’s pop­u­la­tion already eats in­sects. Yet, in the past they have not ap­peared on an European and Swiss di­et­ary plan. Totally new to hu­man con­sump­tion are some of the products of the in­nov­at­ive food in­dustry. A com­pany loc­ated in...
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More Co­coa Powder for the Swiss? The Swiss view on the "Nu­tella gap"
Should Fer­rero, the pro­du­cer of Nu­tella, be hindered to pro­duce a Swiss-style Nu­tella just for the Swiss mar­ket with more co­coa powder than the "nor­mal" Nu­tella? On the as­sump­tion that Swiss con­sumers...
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In­ter­na­tion­al dis­tri­bu­tion and li­cense agree­ments af­fected...
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