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Philippe
Probst
Attorney-at-Law | LL.M.Eur. | Partner
Philippe Probst is a partner at FMP Fuhrer Marbach & Partner. He provides expertise, know-how, and solutions for companies and businesses in the areas of intellectual property, marketing and communications, national and international trademark protection, personality rights, media, film, internet, social media, advertising, design, as well as copyright, unfair competition, commercial, and contract law.
Education
1992-1993
University of Saarbrücken (LL.M.Eur.), awarded the Werner Osthoff Prize for the master’s thesis “Bedeutung von Art. 10 EMRK für die Rundfunkordnung in Europa”
1980-1988
Law studies at the University of St. Gallen and the University of Bern, completed with the bar exam of the Canton of Bern
Career
since 2025
Board member of Cinéconomie (Alliance of the Swiss Film Industry)
since 2010
Board member of Cinésuisse (umbrella association of the Swiss film and audiovisual industry)
since 2003
Lecturer at the HWZ Business School Zurich (Communication Law)
since 1995
Lecturer at various education institutions for IP, media and communications law (CAS courses at the University of Bern, BHF, HWZ for trademark, communications and commercial law, BA communications law)
since 1995
Partner at FMP Fuhrer Marbach & Partner
since 1994
Managing Director of the Association of Swiss Film Technology and Audiovisual Companies
2016-2025
Member of the Copyright Committee of the ECTA (European Communities Trademark Association)
2015-2024
Contributor for INTA Practice Guides „Trademark Cancellations in Switzerland“
2014-2025
Member of the Unfair Competition Committee of MARQUES (Association of European Trade Mark Owners)
2006-2014
Member of the Swiss Federal Film Commission
1994-1996
Assistant at the Institute for European and Private International Law in Bern
1993-1994
Direction Générale XII in Brussels
1990-1992
Media law practice
1988-1990
Schwarz Film Technik AG
Languages
- German, English, French
Memberships
- Bernese and Swiss Bar Associations (BAV and SAV)
- Swiss Association for Intellectual Property Law (INGRES)
- MARQUES (Association of European Trade Mark Owners)
Publications / Lectures
- Guest lectures at the University of Bern on "Recht der kommerziellen Kommunikation" (as part of the lecture series on Communication and Sales Management, since 2015)
- Co-author and co-editor "Recht in Marketing und Kommunikation, Lehr- und Handbuch für die Praxis" (Marti-Gasser Verlag, since 1999)
- Contributions on „Trademark Cancellations in Switzerland“ in Online Publikation der International Trademark Association INTA (2014-2024)
- 2003-2020: Editor of the sic! (Swiss Journal for IP, Information & Competition Law)
- Lecture on the Swissness Revision, Consulting Cluster Bern, 2016
- Presentation «IP-Rechte in Marketing und Kommunikation» (lecture series ip@6)
- Presentation "Product-Placement (Schleich-)Werbung mit grosser Wirkung" (Business Consulting Cluster Bern-Espace Mittelland)
- Presentation "Werbegewinnspiele ohne Grenzen?" (Advertising Law Conference, University of Neuchâtel)
