Peter Ling

Practice Areas

Peter Ling is a partner specialising in intellectual property, unfair competition and life sciences law. He represents clients in litigation before Swiss courts and governmental authorities and in arbitration proceedings. Peter also advises on licensing and IP structuring transactions, and on strategic IP issues.

Peter is a regular contributor on intellectual property matters and a former guest author of the IPKat blog. A lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, he is also a member of the board of the Licensing Executives Society Switzerland (LES-CH) and the co-chair of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI)'s Technology Transfer Committee. Peter is also an active member of the International Trademark Association (INTA)'s Enforcement Committee and of the AIPPI's Standing Committee on TRIPS.

Career

Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg i. Br., Germany (visiting student, 2003), University of Fribourg i. Ue. (lic. iur., 2004), University of Lausanne (Assistant of Prof. F. Dessemontet, 2004/07), Admission to Zurich Bar (2010), Joined Lenz & Staehelin (2010), Columbia Law School (LL.M., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 2012/13), Partner at Lenz & Staehelin (2020)

Professional Memberships

Zurich Bar Association (ZAV), Swiss Bar Association (SAV), Center for Business Law of the University of Lausanne (CEDIDAC), Institut für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz (INGRES), Licensing Executives Society Switzerland (LES-CH), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Munich IP Dispute Resolution Forum (IPDR Forum)

Personal

Languages: German, French, English, Italian, Hungarian