Beat Weibel

Previous work experience

Beat Weibel studied Electrical Engineering at the ETH in Zurich and was Trainee Patent Attorney with ABB from 1991 until 1995. In 1995 he qualified as European Patent Attorney. In 2008 he obtained an LL.M. degree in European IP Law. He was head of Corporate IP of Georg Fischer AG from 1998 until 2000, head of the IP Department of ABB Switzerland from 2000 until 2007, and Chief IP Counsel of ABB Ltd. from 2007 until 2012. From 2013 to May 2025, he was the head of the global Intellectual Property Department of Siemens AG. He was lecturer on patent law at ETH Zurich for many years and is giving lectures at the University of Applied Science Zurich, as well as guest lectures at the Technical University of Munich. Beat Weibel teaches in preparation courses for the Swiss patent attorney qualifying examination, he regularly publishes and speaks on actual topics in the intellectual property law. He was President of the VPP (German Association of Patent Attorneys) and the FEMIPI (European Federation of Intellectual Property Agents in Industry) and is currently a board member of GRUR and of INGRES as well as a member of the curatorship of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.