Dr. Roland Edouard GrossenbacherAs source for his

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, see
''In Betreuung von Prof. Rehbinder erstellte Dissertationen''
web site of the University of Zurich, ''Rechtswissenschaftliches Institutes'', number 32. Consulted on February 12, 2010. See also the use of "Roland E. Grossenbacher" in Bertrand F. Micheli
''Review of the Congress Geneva 2004 – Social Events''

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Newsletter, October 2004, no. 14, 4_04, page 10. is a

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, who served as

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of the

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from 5 March 2000 to 4 March 2009. He was appointed at this post for a first three-year term on 5 March 2000.

Swiss Federal Institute of 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 intelle ...

web site
''EPO: victory for Switzerland''

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, October 15, 1999. Consulted on March 24, 2008. He was then reelected in 2002 for a second term, beginning on 5 March 2003. In December 2005, he was again re-elected as Chairman of the Council from a third term from 5 March 2006 to 4 March 2009.

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(OJ EPO) 1/2006
''Report on the 104th meeting of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation (13 to 15 December 2005)''
p. 1. After he stepped down in March 2009, he was made "Honorary Chairman" of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation. He joined the

in 1976, and was its director from 1989 to 2015.

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, ''Fees may rise as EPO stresses quality'' (Interview: Roland Grossenbacher), February 1, 2008 His first contact with

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s was when he was involved "in a

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while working as an attorney at law for a very small

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." He originally came "from the

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area" and wrote his PhD on copyright. He studied at the Zurich University from 1969 to 1974. He was candidate for the position of President of the

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, which was to be filled on 1 July 2010, but was not elected to the position.

Publications

* ''Die Entwicklung des Welturheberrechtsabkommens im Hinblick auf den Beitritt der Sowjetunion'', Diss. Zürich 1977 * ''Das Uebersetzungsrecht des Welturheberrechtsabkommens und Schutzausnahmen im sowjetischen Urheberrecht: konventionsrechtliche Grenzen innerstaatlicher Einschränkungen des Uebersetzungsrecht'', Film und Recht, 1977, Vol 21 No 12, p 816-821 ''Das Uebersetzungsrecht des Welturheberrechtsabkommens und Schutzausnahmen im sowjetischen Urheberrecht: konventionsrechtliche Grenzen innerstaatlicher Einschränkungen des Uebersetzungsrecht, GROSSENBACHER, ROLAND''
WIPO Library Catalog. Consulted on February 12, 2010.

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