Biography: Patents

Rudolf A Rentsch is founding partner of Rentsch Partner AG, a firm of lawyers and European patent attorneys based in Zurich. For more than 20 years he has acted as a consultant and a litigator in all areas of intellectual property law, with a predominant focus on patent, trademark and copyright law, as well as competition law. Further emphases are licence and distribution agreements and legal and technical consultation in the field of computers, computer software, internet and telecommunication. Rudolf Rentsch has broad experience in complex patent litigation involving international contexts in European countries and overseas.

In 1983 Rudolf Rentsch graduated with a Masters in electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Dipl Ing ETH), and in 1986 he earned an additional Masters in law at the University of St Gallen (lic iur HSG). He practised for many years as a patent attorney and became registered with the Zurich Bar in 1990. He is admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law before all courts in Switzerland and before the European Patent Office. Rudolf Rentsch is fluent in German, English and French.

Rudolf Rentsch has been an elected member of the Swiss Federal Arbitration commission for the exploitation of copyright and neighbouring rights between 1997 and 2011. In 2011, Rudolf Rentsch was elected by the Swiss Parliament to become a non-permanent judge of the newly established Swiss Federal Patent Court.

Rentsch Partner AG offers Swiss and international clients comprehensive services in all fields of IP and ICT law, including prosecution, litigation and consulting in patent, trademark, copyright and design law and legal services in related fields such as industrial law (namely food and drug law), licensing, domain names, unfair competition and advertising law.