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Articles contributed by Umbricht Rechtsanwälte
Dividing estates: Auction of a property by heirs or by the State?
Dividing an estate can be - depending on its complexity and on the behavior of the heirs - quite complicated. Swiss Law gives a possibility to heirs and/or executors to call upon the State authorities to assist them in liquidating the deceased person's estate.
The Swiss Federal Supreme Court held that a cantonal authority is allowed to decide certain questions as long as the inheritance judge had not made his decision and as long as no claim for division (Erbteilungsklage) is pending.
Foreign insolvency administrators in Switzerland: The narrow and rocky path to claim recovery
Foreign insolvency administrators facing the task of recovering assets located in Switzerland typically find themselves in an uncomfortable legal situation since:
Collaboration between the communities in the Canton of Zurich
Much importance is attached to the collaboration between the different communities in the Canton of Zurich. There is hardly any community today which, because of the number and complexity of their obligations, does not need to find it necessary to collaborate.
Inheritance contracts under Swiss law: A valuable and binding instrument for international estates
Inheritance contracts are only one possibility among many other matters to be kept in mind when trying to regulate one's own estate. Estate planning is, however, much more than just drawing up a will or setting up a trust or an inheritance contract. Estate planning has to be understood as an overall plan to regulate matters, while keeping in mind the possibility of retirement and the certainty of death with all appropriate consideration to the different areas of law. Following a decision recently published by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, this article tries to summarize the most important issues regarding inheritance contracts under Swiss law in an international environment.
Provisional measures in Swiss Patent and other intellectual property Laws
The Swiss Federal Patent Court has recently issued a decision of relevance regarding provisional measures relating to patents. It specifies that, at least in the field of intellectual property – not only patents –, a preliminary injunction may not be obtained in order to ascertain rights on intellectual property.
The Revised Lugano Convention of 30 October 2007:
Overview of its innovations and its impact on legal practice
The Reform Project of Swiss Restructuring Law
The Swissair Insolvency as the trigger of restructuring reform
Mediation in the field of intellectual property:
An instrument for the prevention and resolution of conflicts
Switzerland’s application of the Lugano Convention before the ICJ:
The Swissair case and one of its consequences
Access and Benefit Sharing User Measures in the Swiss Legal Order after Nagoya
The members of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (hereinafter CBD) recently adopted an international instrument on access to genetic resources and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilization.