Peter Messerli Explained

Peter Messerli was Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO) and head of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO known as DG3 (Directorate-General, 3, Appeals) from 1996 until his retirement at the end of November 2011.^[1]

He was head of the Patent Division at the Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property before joining the EPO.

Publications

• Peter Messerli, Resolving the conflict between discovery in American courts and the protection of secrecy under the laws of Switzerland, May 1, 1985,

Further reading

• Managing IP honours Peter Messerli, EPO web site, 7 April 2011. Consulted on April 22, 2011.
• News: Porträt Peter Messerli, Der Mann, der den Brokkoli vor Patentjägern schützte . Michelle . Röttger . Financial Times Deutschland . Hamburg . December 10, 2010 . July 29, 2012 . de . Portrait Peter Messerli, The man, who protected the broccoli from the patent hunters . https://web.archive.org/web/20101211231238/http://www.ftd.de/wissen/leben/:portraet-peter-messerli-der-mann-der-den-brokkoli-vor-patentjaegern-schuetzte/50204006.html . December 11, 2010 . dead .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wim Van der Eijk appointed Vice-President of the EPO . 9 November 2011 . News . European Patent Office . 17 November 2011.