Peter Messerli was Vice-President of the

European Patent Office The European Patent Office (EPO) is one of the two organs of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg), the other being the Administrative Council. The EPO acts as executive body for the organisation

(EPO) and head of the

Boards of Appeal of the EPO The European Patent Convention (EPC), the multilateral treaty instituting the legal system according to which European patents are granted, contains provisions allowing a party to appeal a decision issued by a first instance department of the Euro ...

known as DG3 (Directorate-General, 3, Appeals) from 1996 until his retirement at the end of November 2011. He was head of the Patent Division at the

Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property The Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (French: ''Institut fédéral de la propriété intellectuelle'', IPI; German: ''Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum'', IGE; Italian: ''Istituto federale della proprietà intellet ...

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,

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