Dr Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser > CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd. > Zurich, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd. Offices
Dreikönigstrasse 7
PO Box 8022 Zurich
Switzerland
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Dr Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser
Work Department
Intellectual Property, Competition & EU, Consumer Products
Position
Partner
Career
Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser advises and represents clients in connection with contentious and non-contentious issues relating to trademarks, designs, copyrights, patents, data protection, unfair competition and advertisement.
She has substantial experience in the drafting and enforcement of contracts for the transfer of intellectual property rights, especially license agreements. She further regularly deals with all due diligence relevant IP aspects of corporate transactions. Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser also focuses on anti-counterfeiting, including customs procedure.
Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser advises clients across a broad range of industry sectors, including listed as well as small and mid-cap companies and individuals. Her clients are among other information technology companies, pharmaceutical companies, mechanical engineering companies and banks as well as fashion and sport equipment producers and food and consumer goods producers.
Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser has been admitted to the bar in 1996 and has since been working for different patent attorney and law firms in Basel and Zurich. She publishes regularly in the field of intellectual property and unfair competition law and lectures since 2003 at the MAS Marketing and Management of the University of Basel.
Languages
German, English, French, Italian
Memberships
- ZAV (Zürcher Anwaltsverband)
- SAV (Schweizerischer Anwaltsverband)
- INGRES (Institut für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz)
- LES (Licensing Executive Society, Switzerland)
- ASAS (Association Suisse de droit de la concurrence)
- Women in IP
Education
- 2002/2003: University of Cambridge (UK) – Master of Laws
- 2000 – Doktorat, Dr. iur., summa cum laude, Universität Basel, Prof. Walther Hug Preis
- 1988 – 1993: Universität Basel – Lizentiat, magna cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Intellectual property
CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd. uses its ‘excellent knowledge of IP and trade mark law’ to support Swiss-based and global clients with international IP transactions and litigations with particular strengths in the IP development and transfer agreements, pharma patent litigation, trade mark protection, and corporate IP transactions. Practice co-head Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser has expertise drafting and enforcement of contracts for the transfer of intellectual property rights, especially license and R&D agreements. Dirk Spacek, who co-heads the team alongside Birkhäuser, handles technical IP matters such as patent law as well as software- and media-copyright matters.
Switzerland > TMT
CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd. provides a full service for all TMT-related matters including IT-procurement and sourcing, IT-based offerings in insurance and finance sectors, and regulation of telecommunications companies. Practice head Dirk Spacek has a primary focus on new business models arising in the media, internet, and technology sectors, as well as data commercialisation and intellectual property law. Alain Raemy has particular expertise in network-based industries and technology matters. Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser advises clients in connection with contentious and non-contentious issues relating to trade marks, copyrights, unfair competition, and advertisement.
Switzerland > Data privacy and data protection
‘Quick thinker’ Dirk Spacek steers CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd.’s data privacy practice, a team that is proficient in handling global data privacy, protection and information security matters for a diverse range of domestic and international clients. Spacek advises clients on an array of advisory, transactional and contentious work in this field, while Simone Brauchbar Birkhäuser’s expertise comprises a variety of IT and IP issues. Julia Nitschke fields a considerable workload that incorporates arbitration and litigation related matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Competition
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Employment
- Insurance
- Private client
- Real estate and construction
- TMT
- Banking and finance: Geneva
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Data privacy and data protection
- Fintech
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Intellectual property
- Sports law
- Tax
- Banking and finance: Zurich
- Dispute resolution: arbitration