Areas of practice:

Patent law. Expert opinions and litigation work in patent infringement and invalidity cases. Work as an expert for different courts. Counselling and tutoring of professional colleagues in patent conflicts.

Career & experience:

Long standing experience as a patent attorney. Partner since 1977. René Monsch was commerical judge in the patent chamber of the Commercial Court of the Canton of Zurich, lecturer at the "MAS in Intellectual Property" of the ETH Zurich and tutor at the CEIPI. Partner of the firm.

Publications:

"Die Vermeidung der rückblickenden Betrachtungsweise bei der Beurteilung einer Erfindung" in Dr. Rudolf E. Blum, Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag, 1989

Co-author of Chapter 10 "Switzerland" of Sweet & Maxwell's European Patent Litigation Handbook 1999, ISBN 0 421 582 60X

René Monsch/Patrick Troller *

"CH - The Swiss Practice"

in Pagenberg/Cornish (Brinkhof), Interpretation of Patents, NL 25

ISBN3-452-26082-8

* Dr. iur., Attorney -at-Law, Troller Hitz Troller & Partner, Lucerne

Memberships:

VSP, EPI, FICPI

Languages:

German, French, English