Recusal of Non-Permanent Judges of the Swiss Federal Patent Court compared to Article 7 of the Statute of the Unified Patent Court
In a recent decision (case no. 4A_142/2013), the Swiss Federal Supreme Court had to decide whether one of the non-permanent judges of the Swiss Federal Patent Court, a Swiss patent attorney, was obliged to recuse himself due to activities of one of his colleagues in his patent law firm in connection with a trademark matter…