Dr Martin Schneider

Martin Schneider has many years of experience in all areas of intellectual property law as well as in distribution, License Agreements, unfair competition, advertising, media and IT law. He focuses on negotiating and drafting contracts for the commercialization of intellectual property rights such as Patents, Trademarks or Copyright Law, including Software and Television Rights. He supports and advises young companies (start-ups) in the development and expansion of their business (including corporate law, shareholder agreements, protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights). Before founding and developing the firms Schneider Feldmann AG and Grüter Schneider & Partner AG, he was founder of Dr. Schneider & Partner AG, Intellectual Property Rights, part-time legal secretary of the Swiss Federal Appeals Commission for Intellectual Property, section head at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, employee at a law firm in Zurich and license manager at a large Swiss industrial group. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject of “Protection of company secrets against unauthorized exploitation”. Martin Schneider is also a former LES President and still a member of the Board of Directors.

Special fields

• All areas of intellectual property law
• License, distribution, unfair competition, advertising, media and IT law
• Supporting and advising Start-ups in all matters (corporate law, shareholders’ agreements, intellectual property law)