Dr. Peter Walser

Profile Summary
Peter Walser is a highly experienced and accomplished patent attorney who has been working in this profession for over 20 years. He has very broad technical expertise and knows how to bring his wealth of experience and professional competence to bear in close dialogue with clients. Thanks to his many years of experience in the field of intellectual property, he has the ability to explain highly complex issues in client-friendly language and to present them in a comprehensible way.
Peter Walser is always interested in new issues and is fascinated by the fact that he is constantly confronted with new questions in his day-to-day work. He is happy to be the first point of contact for our clients in all matters relating to intellectual property and it is very important to him to respond individually to clients’ requirements and to find solutions that effectively help them to make progress – which very often goes far beyond the mere drafting of patent applications. And if necessary, he can also assert clients’ interests efficiently and vigorously in litigation before courts and authorities.

Education and Qualifications
Peter Walser holds a doctorate in natural sciences and a degree in physics. He completed his doctorate at the ETH Zurich in the field of solid state physics. He has been working in the patent field since 1999; since 2002 he is patent attorney and European Patent Attorney.

Professional Experience
Peter Walser has been working for Frei Patent Attorneys since 2000. He has been managing director since 2005. He represents and advises clients in German and English in all patent law matters (grant, opposition and appeal proceedings, court proceedings before the Swiss Federal Patent Court and before foreign patent courts). He also provides general advice on IP issues and licence matters as well as trademark and design protection.
Peter Walser is also member of the Disciplinary Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (as authorised representative). He is also a member of the Institute Council of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI), the supreme supervisory body with regard to the operational management of the IPI, which grants patents and registers trademarks and designs in Switzerland. He was formerly President of VESPA (Swiss Association of private practice patent attorneys) and a founding member of the Examination Board for the Swiss Patent Attorney Examination. From 2011-2020 he was a board member of LES Switzerland (Licensing Executives Society). From 2005-2010 he was a lecturer at the ETH Zurich.

Technical Background and Areas of Expertise
Medical technology, mechanics and process engineering, food technology and food industry, consumer electronics and household appliances, industrial machines and their software, general physics, in particular laser physics, optics, aerosol physics, measurement technology, building technology and building installations, articles of daily use, sports equipment, printing technology and inks, computer-implemented inventions and image processing, acoustics, sensor technology

Memberships
– Member of the Disciplinary Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office
– Member of the Institute Council of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI)
– VESPA (Swiss Association of private practice patent attorneys), former president
– LES Switzerland (Licensing Executives Society), former board member
– VSP (Association of Swiss Patent and Trademark Attorneys)
– FICPI (International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys)
– AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
– INGRES (Swiss Association for Intellectual Property Law)
– GRUR (German Association for Intellectual Property Law)
– Former member (founding member) of the Examination Board for the Swiss Patent Attorney Examination
– Former lecturer at MAS IP of ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)