I am very pleased to have been invited this year by my colleagues Michael Ritscher and Christoph Gasser to attend the conference organized by INGRES known as the “Zurich IP Retreat,” which is held every two years and brings together a number of international practitioners and academics in the field of intellectual property.

This year, the conference will be held on September 12 and 13. We shall address during these two days the relationships entertained between the requirements to protect intellectual property rights and their scope of such protection.

I will personnally be part of a panel devoted to trademarks and address the topic from a Swiss perspective.