Stefano Codoni

Stefano Codoni

Partner
lic. iur., LL.M., Attorney at Law

Location

Lugano

Contact

Direct phone: +41 58 658 44 01
stefano.codoni@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Stefano Codoni is a partner at Walder Wyss and his practice focuses mainly on intellectual property, life science and technology related transactions (including private equity, venture capital and M&A ) and litigation. Other areas of work are corporate and commercial law. Stefano Codoni also regularly acts as counsel in international commercial arbitration disputes and has experience as sole arbitrator and member of arbitration panels.

Stefano Codoni was born in 1967 and was educated at the University of Zurich (lic. iur. 1991) and at the University of London, Queen Mary & Westfield College (LL.M. 1995). He was admitted to the Zurich bar in 1994. Prior to his joining Walder Wyss in 2013, he held positions as a District Court law clerk, as Foreign Associate in a leading London law firm and as Associate and, during 12 years, as Partner in Zurich and Lugano law firms.

He is fluent in Italian, German, English and French. He is registered with the Ticino Bar Registry and admitted to practice in all Switzerland.

Commercial Litigation Switzerland

| by Dieter Hofmann [co-author] and Stefano Codoni [co-author] | in: Horrocks/Phelan (Editor[s]) | "Commercial Litigation – International Series" | 2. Edition | London | pp. 7–18

Is the case law of the Board of Appeal for Intellectual Property related to the registration as trademark of a specific color «eurocompatible»?

| by Stefano Codoni | in: NRCP Nuova rivista di diritto commerciale e processuale 2004 | pp. 114

Shapes as trademarks: various clarifications from the Federal Court in the decision LEGO III [3D] of the Commercial Court of Zurich

| by Stefano Codoni | in: NRCP Nuova rivista di diritto commerciale e processuale 2003 | pp. 117

Own-brand look-alikes: Green light from the Federal Court? Marginal note DFC July 20, 2003 [4C.60/2003] [Petit Gervais/Petit Suisse]

| by Stefano Codoni | in: NRCP Nuova rivista di diritto commerciale e processuale 2003 | pp. 119

Shapes as trademarks: guidelines from the Federal Court after the decision LEGO II [3D] of the Commercial Court of Zurich are expected

| by Stefano Codoni | in: NRCP Nuova rivista di diritto commerciale e processuale 2003 | pp. 113

Warranties and Disclaimers – Limitation of Liability in Consumer-Related Transactions – Chapter on Switzerland

| by Stefano Codoni | in: Dr. Martin Kurer, Stefano Codoni, Dr. Klaus Günther, Jorge Santiago Neves and Lawrence Teh (Editor[s]) | "Warranties and Disclaimers – Limitation of Liability in Consumer-Related Transactions" | London | pp. 527

Sanctions for violations of information confidentiality rules

| by Stefano Codoni [co-author] and Tomas Poledna [co-author] | in: Bruno Baeriswyl/Beat Rudin (Editor[s]) | "Perspektive Datenschutz" | Zurich | pp. 265–290

Lack of Effective Protection for Databases in Switzerland

| by Stefano Codoni | in: Copyright World, November 2000 issue | pp. 14

Financing of technology start-ups – the legal issues

| by Martin Kurer, Jasmin Ghandchi and Stefano Codoni | in: Internet Finance Review 2000/2001 | pp. 85

The application of the principle of priority of absolute rights vis-à-vis relative rights in the intellectual property law and in particular in the copyright law

| by Stefano Codoni | in: SJZ 1999 | pp. 1

Data Protection Laws of the World, Swiss Chapter

| by Stefano Codoni | in: Millard/Ford (Editor[s]) | "Data Protection Laws of the World" | London

The intellectual creation must be fixed in order to enjoy protection

| by Stefano Codoni and Kurer Martin | in: Martin Kurer, Didier Sangiorgio, Michael Ritscher, David Aschmann (Editor[s]) | "Binsenwahrheiten des Immaterialgüterrechtes, Festschrift für Lucas David" | Zurich | pp. 229

European Computer Law: Chapter on Contracts

| by Stefano Codoni | in: Computer Law Association publications | pp. 7

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