Manuel Locher has extensive experience in trademark examination and knowledge transfer within intellectual property. Since July 2011, Manuel Locher has served as the Leiter Sektion Markenprüfung 6 and Teamverantwortlicher "Wissenstransfer" at the Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, where responsibilities include organizational and professional coordination of the team and the development and implementation of the knowledge transfer strategy for the trademark department. Prior to this role, from February 2019 to April 2021, Manuel Locher worked at the EUIPO as an Opposition Decision Taker and Trademark Examiner, engaging in drafting decisions and correspondence related to opposition cases and absolute grounds. Earlier career experience includes positions as Fachstellenleiter Aus- und Weiterbildung at Jungwacht Blauring Schweiz and Leiter Kantonale Arbeitstelle at Jungwacht Blauring Kanton Solothurn. Manuel Locher holds a degree from the Université de Fribourg and has completed the SVEB I course in adult education and teaching from the Bundesamt für Sport BASPO.
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Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property IGE IPI
You can file a patent for your invention, register a trademark, or protect a design with us: We examine national applications, grant protective rights and maintain the official Swiss register of IP titles. We are also concerned with copyrights and supervise the collecting societies in addition to advising federal offices on intellectual property issues and representing Switzerland abroad on issues of intellectual property. Finally, we offer trademark searches, deliver information on patents and technology, and conduct training workshops in intellectual property.