I was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Neuenburg at the age of 23, then as a Professor at the University of Lausanne at the age of 30. My skills in my chosen fields also led (lead) me to teach at the Universities of Fribourg and Lugano (where I still teach) and Zurich.

With almost 60 publications in a wide range of scientific journals, both in Switzerland and internationally, including 5 books written in my preferred fields of intellectual property rights, IT and digital technology, I am regularly consulted by my clients on a wide range of issues. 

My intervention can be called upon for a number of reasons: either in areas where my clients do not have the required skills in-house, or because they are overloaded, or because they need a legal opinion in preparation for or in connection with a court case.

In the field of data protection, my expertise has often been required to assess the compliance of internal processes with the requirements laid down by the GDPR, respectively the Federal Data Protection Act, mandates that regularly lead to the implementation of a governance program in this area, which is then managed internally. 

In addition to these data protection programs, recent examples of consultations include the following:

• Assessment of the legal risks associated with the use of GitHub Copilot by software developers and comparison with other artificial intelligence tools;
• Assessment of the risks associated with the scrapping of sound data (podcasts in particular) intended to train an artificial intelligence model to improve the quality of hearing-aid products and recommendations from a transnational perspective;
• Assessment of the risks associated with the use of various artificial intelligence tools in the healthcare industry for public hospitals, particularly with regard to data protection ;
• Assessment of possible copyright infringement linked to the digitized reproduction of monuments in a Metavers ;
• Implementation of a matrix for internal teams to determine whether copyright royalties should be paid, under what circumstances and with what applicable tariff ;
• Legal opinion in arbitration proceedings concerning the validity of the termination of a trademark license agreement and its impact on the right to continue using the trademark, said agreement being one of several unterminated agreements;
• Legal opinion for legal proceedings in the watch industry;
• Assessing the risks associated with operating social pages for a Swiss bank and possible cross-border advertising ;

Strengths :

• Strong academic credibility;
• Structured mind ;
• Ability to explain complex issues clearly;
• Transnational approach in selected areas (CH, EU, US).