Walder Wyss has successfully represented an Armenian construction company in an ICC arbitration seated in Zurich under the ICC Rules against a globally leading general contractor. The law firm brought a multi-million claim on behalf of their client against the general contractor relating to unpaid invoices and lost profit following the termination of the contract […]
LALIVE successfully represented Yukos Capital against the Russian Federation’s challenge of an interim and a final award before the Swiss Supreme Court, Switzerland’s highest court. The final award, granting Yukos Capital a compensation of +$5bn, is one of the largest arbitration awards ever examined by the Court. In its decision the Swiss Supreme Court entirely […]
MLL Legal has successfully represented Lindt & Sprüngli against Lidl regarding the trademark protection for the “Lindt Gold Bunny”. With Judgment of 30 August 2022 the Swiss Federal Court has fully granted Lindt & Sprüngli’s injunction against Lidl and has prohibited Lidl from producing and distributing copies of the Lindt Gold Bunny. This Judgment implies […]
Walder Wyss has successfully represented a Swiss high-tech company both in arbitration proceedings (seated in Geneva and adjudicated under the WIPO Arbitration Rules) and before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. The law firm has defended a client against a multi-million dollar claim challenging the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal. The dispute revolved around the question […]
CMS Switzerland has represented Diffulivre, a Swiss company and member of the Hachette Group, in an appeal before the Swiss Supreme Court brought against the judgment by the Swiss Administrative Court of 30 October 2019 concerning the distribution of French language books in Switzerland. The Swiss company was founded in 1978, with the aim of […]
With Judgment of 6 April 2022, the Federal Supreme Court upheld FIFA’s claim that the marks “PUMA WORLD CUP QATAR 2022” and “PUMA WORLD CUP 2022” were misleading, ordered these marks to be removed from the register and referred the case back to the Zurich Commercial Court to decide on the question of injunctive relief. […]
Bär & Karrer has represented a former UEFA ethics and disciplinary inspector before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. In this sense, two former UEFA ethics and disciplinary inspectors have been acquitted in a lawsuit against the former president of a European football club and another person close to the club. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court […]
The Swiss Federal Patent Court held Bayer’s patent to be preliminarily valid and – in particular – confirmed the existence of inventive step. The court granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting generic company Helvepharm from distributing its generic “Sorafenib Zentiva” in Switzerland. Patent owner Bayer HealthCare filed a request for preliminary injunction based on the Swiss/Lichtenstein […]
Lenz & Staehelin advised the Geneva opera, the Grand Théatre de Genève, in connection with a dispute over the sale of the Opera des Nations, a wooden structure belonging to the opera. A complaint had been filed by Wu Promotion the Chinese purchaser company claiming in excess of 7 million francs in damages. A settlement […]
MLL’s patent team successfully represented Swisscom Switzerland in a patent infringement claim of a non-practicing entity directed at Swisscom’s product “Swisscom TV 2.0”, in particular the technology that allows specific parts of programs to be selected and reviewed after the broadcast. The Swiss Federal Patent Court considered the patent of the NPE to be invalid […]
