Guillaume Fournier

Guillaume is co-head of the firm’s trademark and design group. His practice encompasses all aspects of IP law, with a focus on IP litigation and arbitration, trademark and design prosecution and contractual and commercial intellectual property. He has extensive experience in litigating IP cases (both technical and non-technical) in both the French and German-speaking parts of Switzerland. Having taken care of clients’ IP issues in China for a long time and practised in China for a year, he regularly advises rights holders on China-related IP and anti-counterfeiting strategies (both inbound and outbound). · MLL Legal

SwitzerlandIntellectual Property, TrademarksGerman, French, English

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Guillaume is a partner and co-head of the firm's trademark and design group at MLL Legal, focusing on all aspects of intellectual property law with particular emphasis on IP litigation and arbitration, trademark and design prosecution, and contractual/commercial IP. He has extensive experience litigating technical and non-technical IP cases across the French- and German-speaking parts of Switzerland and regularly advises rights holders on China-related IP and anti-counterfeiting strategies.

Practice areas

Intellectual PropertyTrademarksDesignsLitigationArbitrationPatentsLife SciencesAnti-Counterfeiting

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Switzerland

MLL Legal · Guillaume is co-head of the firm’s trademark and design group. His practice encompasses all aspects of IP law, with a focus on IP litigation and arbitration, trademark and design prosecution and contractual and commercial intellectual property. He has extensive experience in litigating IP cases (both technical and non-technical) in both the French and German-speaking parts of Switzerland. Having taken care of clients’ IP issues in China for a long time and practised in China for a year, he regularly advises rights holders on China-related IP and anti-counterfeiting strategies (both inbound and outbound).

Switzerland

Expertise

Trademark prosecutionDesign prosecutionIP litigation (technical and non-technical)IP arbitrationChina-related IP strategiesAnti-counterfeitingContractual and commercial IP

Education

Dr. iur., University of Fribourg (2009)
lic. iur., University of Fribourg; Free University of Berlin (2000)

Admissions

Admitted to the bar in Switzerland (2007)

Languages

GermanFrenchEnglish