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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
International law firm Baker & McKenzie has been representing platinum group metal recycling company, Johnson Matthey and its Swiss subsidiary in its five-year fight against an order of the Federal Tax Administration (FTA) claiming additional
