Moritz Kälin

As a patent attorney, Moritz Kälin advises Swiss and foreign individuals and legal entities on the efficient protection of their own innovations through patents and designs, as well as on the protection and defense of their business activities against third party intellectual property rights.

He has many years of experience in advising clients in Europe and worldwide on the prosecution, enforcement and licensing of patents. He represents patent applicants before the European Patent Office in application and opposition proceedings and manages patent prosecution proceedings worldwide.

Moritz Kälin is mainly active in the fields of medical technology, environmental technology, intralogistics, chemical plant engineering, pharmaceuticals and chemistry, and general mechanical engineering.

Expertise

Representation before the European Patent Office and the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Pro
Supervision and management of patent prosecution proceedings worldwide
FTO (Freedom-to-Operate) assessments
Advice on patent and licensing strategy
Representation in opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office
Representation before the Unified Patent Court
Patent attorney services in the context of patent litigation

Career and education

2023 Admission as European Patent Litigator (authorized representative before the Unified Patent Court)

2017 Founding partner of IPrime Rentsch Kaelin AG

2016 Examiner for the admission examinations for Swiss patent attorneys

2015 Partner at a Zurich patent and law firm

2013 Board member at LES Switzerland, the Swiss chapter of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI)

2012 Lecturer at the SSIB Swiss School for International Business in the courses for Foreign Trade Specialists and Swiss Certified Foreign Trade Executives

2007 Patent attorney in a Zurich patent and law firm

2007 Admission as European Patent Attorney

2004 Patent Engineer/Patent Attorney candidate in a Zurich patent attorney firm

2004 MAS Intellectual Property, ETH Zürich, Department of Industrial Management and Manufacturing

2003 Doctoral thesis (Dr. sc. nat.), ETH Zürich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences

2001 Co-president of AVETH, the Association of Scientific Staff at ETH Zürich

1999 Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich

1998 M.Sc. (Chemistry), ETH Zürich

Honours

IAM Patent 1000: Recommended Individual since 2013

IP STARS: Notable Practitioner

Publications and lectures

«The Unified Patent Court - An Overview», KMU-Magazin, 6/2023, Moritz Kälin, Ronny D. Banchik.
Commentary on Articles 121-124 and 131-138 Swiss Patent Act, in: Schweizer Mark, Zech Herbert (eds.), Patentgesetz, Stämpflis Handkommentar, Bern 2019, Moritz A. Kälin (in co-authorship with Rudolf A. Rentsch).
«Tax reform 2020: what the new patent box offers», KMU-Magazin, 9/2019, Moritz Kälin.
«Freedom-to-operate analyses in theory and practice», talk together with Mathias Weiss (Biotronik AG) at the joint conference "IP and IT in M&A Transactions" of LES Switzerland and Europa Institute, 28 February 2018.
«Requirements for protection of design: Report of Swiss Group», co-author of the AIPPI report, sic! 2016, 11, P. 624-632.
«P Purchase Agreements - Dos and Dont's», talk at the IP symposium «Intellectual Property: Purchase instead of License» of LES Switzerland, 3 April 2014.
Chapter Design Law and Patent Law, in: U. Grüter, M. Schneider, M. Senn (eds.), kommunikationsrecht.ch, Handbuch des Schweizerischen Kommunikations- und Immaterialgüterrechts für Studium und Praxis (2nd ed.), vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 2012.
Chapter Patent Law, in: U. Grüter, P. Studer, J. Six, M. Studer (Hrsg.), Werbe- und Kommunikationsrecht, WEKA Verlag, 2006.
M. Kälin, M. Fedin, I. Gromov, A. Schweiger, Multiple-Photon Transitions in EPR Spectroscopy, In: J. Dolinšek et al. (eds), Novel NMR and EPR techniques. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 684, Springer, Berlin 2006.
Orphan Drug Designation – A Special Form of Industrial Property Right and its Relevance for Small and Medium Enterprises, Diploma thesis MAS Intellectual property ETH Zurich, 2004.
M. Kälin et al., Transparency in two-level spin systems induced by a longitudinal field, Physical Review A, vol. 69, 033809 (2004).
M. Kälin et al., The continuous wave electron paramagnetic resonance experiment revisited, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, vol. 160, p. 166 (2003).
M. Kälin, Multiple photon processes in electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, ETH Dissertation No. 15142, 2003. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-004593146

Office/location

Zurich

Languages

German
English

Memberships:

AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
EPI (Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office)
FICPI (International Federation of Industrial Property Agents)
LES (Lisensing Executives Society - the specialist association for licensinig, technology transfers and intellectual property)
SCS (Swiss Chemical Society)
VESPA (Association of European and Swiss Patent Attorneys in private practice)
VSP (Association of Swiss Patent and Trademark Attorneys)

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³ Not admitted to the bar
⁴ European Patent Attorney
⁸ Liechtenstein and Swiss Patent Attorney

Moritz Kälin

Dr. sc. nat. ETH, M.Sc. (Chemistry), MAS Intellectual Property ETH European Patent Attorney, Swiss Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator, Partner3, 4, 8

Dr. sc. nat. ETH, M.Sc. (Chemistry), MAS Intellectual Property ETH
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