Anne-Virginie La Spada-Gaide
Associate
- Intellectual Property
- Unfair Competition
- Internet Law
- Contracts
Email Anne-Virginie La Spada-Gaide
Education
Admitted to the Bar 1995 (New York), 1998 (Switzerland)
University of Lausanne (Licence en droit, 1993; Doctorat en droit, 1998)
Cornell University, USA (LL.M., 1994)
Career history
Associate with BMG Avocats, Geneva, since 1998
Trainee Lawyer with BMG Avocats, Geneva, 1996-1998
Member of the Swiss Federal Arbitration Commission for the Exploitation of Copyrights and Related Rights, since 2004
Panelist with WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center for domain name disputes, since 2000
Memberships
Geneva Bar Association
Swiss Bar Association
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
International Literary and Artistic Association (ALAI)
Licensing Executives Society (LES)
Art Law Centre, Geneva
Languages
French, English and German
Publications
Copyright, Trademarks and Trade Dress: Overlap or Conflict for Cartoon Characters?, in Proceedings of the ALAI Congress, June 13-17, 2001, New York, 2002
Le nouveau Règlement européen sur les dessins et modèles communautaires, in on-line review Relevant (Westlaw.ch), 2002
Le droit d'auteur, in Guide pratique du chef d'entreprise (WEKA), Zurich, 1999
La protection des personnages fictifs par le droit d'auteur, Doctoral Thesis, Berne, 1998