Urs Baldenweg

Profile Summary
Urs Baldenweg has been working in the field of patents since 2000 and can draw on a wealth of experience – as a patent and trademark attorney and as a long-standing product developer and co-founder of an innovative start-up that was awarded the prestigious W.A. de Vigier Prize.
Urs Baldenweg is very familiar with inventive activity from his own experience, and his heart beats for innovation. He is therefore particularly pleased to closely accompany our clients on the way to protecting their promising inventions and to advise them individually. It is important to him to look at innovations from different perspectives and to assess them in the overall context.

Education and Qualifications
Urs Baldenweg is a Swiss patent attorney and holds a degree in physics from ETH Zurich. He also successfully completed the Executive MBA at the ZHW (now ZHAW, Zurich University of Applied Sciences).

Professional Experience
Urs Baldenweg has been working as a patent and trademark attorney for over 20 years; he has been with Frei Patent Attorneys since 2023. He represents our clients in all legal matters relating to patents, trademarks and designs before the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) and advises and assists them in grant, opposition and appeal proceedings as well as licensing matters in German, English and French.

Technical Background and Areas of Expertise
Sensor technology, microsensor technology, mechatronics, building automation, industrial automation, communication technology, process engineering, electronic controls and devices for household, industry and trade; infrastructure, construction and transportation; equipment for heating, cooling and air-conditioning technology, efficient energy utilisation, consumer goods

Memberships
VESPA (Swiss Association of private practice patent attorneys)