Cordillera Sàrl
These terms establish the agreement between us for the provision of our services. Any terms pre-agreed between us by email will override these terms if there’s any conflict between them.
We may need to change these terms at any time in response to legal or regulatory requirements or changes to our business or ways of working. If any changes affect existing instructions, we’ll give you advance notice of them and if we don’t hear from you within 14 days of such notice, we’ll assume that you’re happy with such changes.
1. Who we are
A. Cordillera is the name for the IP practice carried on by Cordillera Sárl (we/us/our). Cordillera is a limited company registered in Switzerland under company number CHE-162.222.001.
B. Cordillera is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). However, our solicitors are SRA regulated and their details can be found on the SRA website .
C. Our VAT number is CHE-162.222.001.
2. What we do (and what we don’t)
A. We advise on English and European Trade Mark and Design Law and provide strategic global IP advice and support to inhouse teams.
B. If you ask us to review legal documents that are governed by the laws of another country, we’ll assume you understand that our advice will only be based on how the documents would be interpreted under English law. If you require overseas legal advice, please tell us and we can instruct another firm on your behalf or refer you to them directly.
C. Although some of the work we do may have important tax and financial consequences, we’re unable to provide tax or financial advice. If such advice is needed, we can recommend someone who can help.
3. How we work
A. Fixed fee projects and transactions
B. Hourly rate work
C. Where you engage us on behalf of a third party
If you’re another service provider (such as a law, trade mark or accountancy firm) engaging us to carry out work for you on behalf of a client of yours (Your Client):
4. Fees, invoicing and payment
A. Proposals and quotes: Any proposals or quotes we provide will be based on the information provided to us and will only be valid for 30 days from the date they were given.
B. Timing of invoices: We’ll invoice you for our services:
C. Timing of payment: Invoices for our services are payable within 15 calendar days from the invoice date.
D. How invoices will be sent: We’ll send our invoices by email to the email address provided by you. If this email address changes, you must let us know as soon as possible. If any invoice relates to a matter that is confidential within your organisation, please let us know whether the invoice should be sent to someone else.
E. References on invoices: If you need us to include a purchase order number or other reference on our invoices, you must tell us before we issue the invoice; otherwise the invoice will be valid and will need to be paid on time.
F. Payment of invoices: Payment of our invoices must be made directly into our bank account as stated on the invoice. We’re happy to confirm these details over the phone with you.
G. Questions about invoices: If you’ve got any questions about an invoice, you should raise them with us immediately.
H. Late payment: Unless you’ve disputed any amount of an invoice in good faith, we may stop work on all your matters where any invoice remains unpaid after 30 days from its due date. We may also invoice you for interest and additional sums permitted by law.
I. Joint instructions: When two or more persons instruct us, each person will be jointly and separately liable to pay the full amount of our fees or expenses and any VAT.
J. Reviewing our rates: We reserve the right to review our rates at least once every year and, where we’re currently providing our services to you, we’ll notify you of any increases before they apply.
5. Privilege
A. Legal privilege: The communications between you and our solicitors are privileged under Section 87 of the Trade Marks Act 1994. This means that others, including the courts, are not entitled to discover the content of such communications where they concern professional advice. Privilege can be lost if said communications are disseminated to persons other than the addressee.
B. Loss of privilege: In rare circumstances, the courts may rule that such privilege is lost or does not apply. In that event we accept no liability in respect of any loss whatsoever incurred by you or any other party as a direct or indirect consequence of the loss or absence of privilege.
6. Travel and expenses
A. Travel time: If you ask us to travel for case-related work, then we’ll charge for the time spent travelling – though we’d always look to make the most of that time by working on your matters where appropriate for us to do so.
B. Travel expenses: If you ask us to travel for case-related work, we may invoice you for any travel expenses actually incurred where the cost of an individual trip is less than CHF250.
C. Currency charges: Where we incur charges in foreign currencies or agree to bill you in a foreign currency, we will apply an exchange conversion rate which is based on the spot rate at the time of billing but which includes a margin to cover our conversion costs and currency risk.
D. Other expenses: You agree that we may invoice you for any other expenses actually incurred on your behalf, for example, bank transfer fees, where these don’t exceed CHF50 each or CHF250 in total.
7. Our liability to you
A. Our duty of care: We owe you a duty to act with reasonable skill and care and to act in accordance with the SRA’s Standards and Regulations. This duty is owed only to you and not to anyone else. Our advice can’t be relied upon by anyone else unless we’ve agreed to this in writing. Our directors, employees and consultants will not be personally liable to you and you agree that any claim you may have will only be made against Cordillera.
B. What we don’t accept liability for:
We don’t accept any liability for:
C. Limit of liability:
8. Termination and cancellation
A. Termination by you: You may terminate your agreement with us at any time in writing.
B. Termination by us: We may terminate our agreement with you on reasonable written notice where we’ve a good reason for doing so, for example, if you don’t pay our bills, you fail to make any payment on account of our fees or expenses or a conflict of interest arises.
C. Payment on termination: Unless you’ve disputed any amount of an invoice in good faith, you must pay all outstanding invoices and for any fees or expenses incurred by us up to the time of termination. Where you’ve made any payment on account of our fees or expenses, we’ll repay such monies to you less such fees or expenses.
D. Cancellation: If you’re an individual and you’re not acting in the course of your trade, business, craft or profession when you instruct us, you’ll be deemed a “consumer” under UK consumer law. In such circumstances, where you’ve agreed to instruct us at any place other than our office premises, you’ve the right to cancel your instructions within 14 days from such date. If you cancel during this period, we’ll promptly repay any monies received from you, unless you consented to us starting work within that period, in which case you’ll have to pay for the work done up to the time of cancellation. Notice of cancellation can be made by phone, email or by any other means.
9. Privacy
How we handle personal data: You can find out more about what personal data we collect relating to various groups of individuals and how we handle it in our Privacy Policy.
10. Other important terms
A. Anti-money laundering and compliance: We’re required under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 to identify and verify the identity of our clients and, sometimes, other individuals such as directors and persons having significant control over our clients. You agree to us making such checks using online databases. We’re also required under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and similar laws to report any information which gives rise to money laundering or terrorist financing concerns to the National Crime Agency or other similar agencies. We may be prohibited from continuing work on any related matters while any investigation is ongoing and from telling you whether we’ve had to make such a report.
B. Client account deposits: As we don’t have any control over the financial stability of our bank, we can’t be responsible for the failure of our bank or monies lost due to such failure. In such circumstances, you may be entitled to compensation under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
C. Communication: We prefer to avoid using paper where we can and will generally communicate by email, phone, video call or your other preferred channels. If you’d prefer us to encrypt all emails with you, please let us know, otherwise all emails will be unencrypted. We’ll do what we can to ensure that all communication with you is secure but can’t guarantee that they always will be secure. We recommend that you run anti-virus software when opening any attachments sent by us.
D. Complaints: If there’s any issue with the service we’ve provided, please let us know and we’ll respond to it. In the unlikely event that we’re unable to resolve any issue between us at the end of our complaints process, you may be entitled to complain to the Legal Ombudsman. You must take your complaint to the Legal Ombudsman:
Before accepting a complaint for investigation, the Legal Ombudsman will check that you have tried to resolve things with us. If you would like more information about the Legal Ombudsman, please contact:
post: Legal Ombudsman, PO Box 6806, Wolverhampton, WV1 9WJ
email: [email protected]
phone: 0300 5550333
online: www.legalombudsman.org.uk
If you aren’t entitled to complain to the Legal Ombudsman, there are alternative dispute resolution bodies that are able to deal with complaints about legal services and if we agree to use such a scheme, we’ll inform you when notifying you of our final response to your complaint.
E. Conflicts of interest: If we become aware of any actual or potential conflict of interest between your interests and the interest of any other client of this firm, we may not be able to continue acting for you in a matter. If this happens, we’ll discuss it with you to agree the best way forward. If we become aware of, or have reasonable grounds to suspect a conflict of interest between your interests and the interests of our firm, or one of its directors, managers or employees, we will not be able to act for you, or continue acting for you. Similarly, if we become aware of, or have reasonable grounds to suspect a conflict of interest between the interests of our firm, or one of its directors, managers or employees, and those of a former client, we will not be able to act.
F. Confidentiality: We’re required to keep the affairs of current and former clients confidential, unless disclosure is required or permitted by law or you consent to such disclosure. We may be required to disclose confidential information to SRA as our regulator, our insurers for underwriting purposes and the National Crime Agency, the police, or other law enforcement agencies, if we reasonably suspect the commission of a criminal offence or a risk of harm to you or anyone else. Where we’re concerned that we can’t accept your instructions without disclosing or using any confidential information of someone else, we may have to terminate our agreement with you.
G. Copyright: We own the copyright and any other intellectual property rights in all documents we create for you. Provided you’ve paid all invoices relating to the creation of any documents, you’re free to copy, modify and use such documents for the specific purposes for which they were created. If you want to use any documents for any other purposes, you must ask us for permission to do so.
H. Files and original documents: We store all emails and documents electronically and are required to keep copies for a period of 7 years after a matter is closed. After that time, we may delete them. We don’t hold onto original documents and either forward them to you, or destroy them, at your request.
I. Reasonable adjustments: As a firm, promoting equality and diversity is really important to us. If we can assist you by providing our services in a different way, don’t hesitate to tell us and we’ll investigate how we can make reasonable adjustments to our service and discuss our proposals with you.
J. Severance: Each paragraph of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
K. Transferring this agreement to someone else: We may transfer our rights and obligations under our agreement with you to another organisation. We’ll always tell you in writing if this happens and we’ll ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under our agreement with you.
L. Waiver: If we delay or fail to exercise any right, power or remedy that we may have by law or under the terms of our agreement with you, this doesn’t mean that we waive such right, power or remedy now or in the future. Similarly, if we only exercise any right, power or remedy once or partially, this doesn’t mean that we’re prevented from exercising such right, power or remedy in full now or in the future.
M. Governing law and jurisdiction: The agreement between us will be governed by Swiss law. If any dispute arises, such dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Swiss courts; however, we may pursue any claim for unpaid fees or expenses in any appropriate jurisdiction.
N. Authority: Whilst we are engaged as your IP representative, you give us permission to complete and/or sign your name on forms or documents required in order for us to carry out that role and your instructions.
We may need to change these terms at any time in response to legal or regulatory requirements or changes to our business or ways of working. If any changes affect existing instructions, we’ll give you advance notice of them and if we don’t hear from you within 14 days of such notice, we’ll assume that you’re happy with such changes.
1. Who we are
A. Cordillera is the name for the IP practice carried on by Cordillera Sárl (we/us/our). Cordillera is a limited company registered in Switzerland under company number CHE-162.222.001.
B. Cordillera is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). However, our solicitors are SRA regulated and their details can be found on the SRA website .
C. Our VAT number is CHE-162.222.001.
2. What we do (and what we don’t)
A. We advise on English and European Trade Mark and Design Law and provide strategic global IP advice and support to inhouse teams.
B. If you ask us to review legal documents that are governed by the laws of another country, we’ll assume you understand that our advice will only be based on how the documents would be interpreted under English law. If you require overseas legal advice, please tell us and we can instruct another firm on your behalf or refer you to them directly.
C. Although some of the work we do may have important tax and financial consequences, we’re unable to provide tax or financial advice. If such advice is needed, we can recommend someone who can help.
3. How we work
A. Fixed fee projects and transactions
- Fixed fees will be based on a pre-agreed scope of work subject to certain assumptions and exclusions.
- Work undertaken on a fixed fee basis is subject to a minimum instruction fee of CHF500 plus VAT
- When we agree a fixed fee, we’ll stick to it unless any assumptions aren’t met (for example, because the scope of work has changed, or the project is taking longer than expected due to delays we’ve not caused) or if we’re required to do anything that was excluded.
- In the case of any transactional work, we’ll be entitled to invoice you for our fees (based on our standard hourly rates) and expenses even if the transaction doesn’t complete for any reason.
- If you ask us to stop working on a fixed fee project, we’ll only charge you for the work we’ve done up to that point at our standard hourly rates.
- If we are to incur disbursements on your behalf, we may ask you to pay those fees in advance as anticipated disbursements or upon receipt of invoice.
B. Hourly rate work
- Upon request, we’ll charge on an hourly basis at our standard hourly rates.
- If you would like us to cap the amount of time we spend on any work (which means that we won’t go over the capped amount without agreeing with you first), please let us know before we start the work.
C. Where you engage us on behalf of a third party
If you’re another service provider (such as a law, trade mark or accountancy firm) engaging us to carry out work for you on behalf of a client of yours (Your Client):
- Your Client, will be our client and, to the extent they are applicable, these terms of business will apply to our engagement by you on behalf of Your Client.
- You may instruct us on behalf of Your Client and in accepting instructions from you, we discharge our obligation to provide information to our clients to you.
- You’ll be directly liable to us for all fees incurred for any services you instruct us to undertake for you, whether or not the ultimate recipient of those services is Your Client.
- You’ll provide us with sufficient details in relation to Your Client to allow us to meet our regulatory and statutory obligations, and we’ll not be liable to you or Your Client where you fail to provide any required information, or provide any inaccurate or misleading information to us.
- We’ll not be liable for any losses suffered by you or Your Client which are due to any action or inaction by you, including any failure by you to: (i) pass on any instructions or information from Your Client to us; or (ii) pass on any communication from us to Your Client, in each case promptly and in any event within any timescale required to allow any court or other statutory deadlines to be met.
- Except to the extent there’s any legal or regulatory obligation on us to do so, you’re responsible for carrying out all required checks and searches on Your Client and we’ll not be liable to you for any failure by you to undertake such checks.
4. Fees, invoicing and payment
A. Proposals and quotes: Any proposals or quotes we provide will be based on the information provided to us and will only be valid for 30 days from the date they were given.
B. Timing of invoices: We’ll invoice you for our services:
- Following delivery of first drafts of any documents or completion of any task or transaction (as appropriate), in the case of fixed fee projects or transactions.
- Monthly in arrears or when we’ve recorded a significant amount of time, in the case of hourly rate work.
C. Timing of payment: Invoices for our services are payable within 15 calendar days from the invoice date.
D. How invoices will be sent: We’ll send our invoices by email to the email address provided by you. If this email address changes, you must let us know as soon as possible. If any invoice relates to a matter that is confidential within your organisation, please let us know whether the invoice should be sent to someone else.
E. References on invoices: If you need us to include a purchase order number or other reference on our invoices, you must tell us before we issue the invoice; otherwise the invoice will be valid and will need to be paid on time.
F. Payment of invoices: Payment of our invoices must be made directly into our bank account as stated on the invoice. We’re happy to confirm these details over the phone with you.
G. Questions about invoices: If you’ve got any questions about an invoice, you should raise them with us immediately.
H. Late payment: Unless you’ve disputed any amount of an invoice in good faith, we may stop work on all your matters where any invoice remains unpaid after 30 days from its due date. We may also invoice you for interest and additional sums permitted by law.
I. Joint instructions: When two or more persons instruct us, each person will be jointly and separately liable to pay the full amount of our fees or expenses and any VAT.
J. Reviewing our rates: We reserve the right to review our rates at least once every year and, where we’re currently providing our services to you, we’ll notify you of any increases before they apply.
5. Privilege
A. Legal privilege: The communications between you and our solicitors are privileged under Section 87 of the Trade Marks Act 1994. This means that others, including the courts, are not entitled to discover the content of such communications where they concern professional advice. Privilege can be lost if said communications are disseminated to persons other than the addressee.
B. Loss of privilege: In rare circumstances, the courts may rule that such privilege is lost or does not apply. In that event we accept no liability in respect of any loss whatsoever incurred by you or any other party as a direct or indirect consequence of the loss or absence of privilege.
6. Travel and expenses
A. Travel time: If you ask us to travel for case-related work, then we’ll charge for the time spent travelling – though we’d always look to make the most of that time by working on your matters where appropriate for us to do so.
B. Travel expenses: If you ask us to travel for case-related work, we may invoice you for any travel expenses actually incurred where the cost of an individual trip is less than CHF250.
C. Currency charges: Where we incur charges in foreign currencies or agree to bill you in a foreign currency, we will apply an exchange conversion rate which is based on the spot rate at the time of billing but which includes a margin to cover our conversion costs and currency risk.
D. Other expenses: You agree that we may invoice you for any other expenses actually incurred on your behalf, for example, bank transfer fees, where these don’t exceed CHF50 each or CHF250 in total.
7. Our liability to you
A. Our duty of care: We owe you a duty to act with reasonable skill and care and to act in accordance with the SRA’s Standards and Regulations. This duty is owed only to you and not to anyone else. Our advice can’t be relied upon by anyone else unless we’ve agreed to this in writing. Our directors, employees and consultants will not be personally liable to you and you agree that any claim you may have will only be made against Cordillera.
B. What we don’t accept liability for:
We don’t accept any liability for:
- advice given by us based on information or materials provided by you or by any third party which, knowingly or not, was incomplete, incorrect or misleading.
- advice given by any other professionals (such as accountants, tax advisers or foreign lawyers), including where we’ve recommended them or instructed them on your behalf.
- reports, such as trade mark search reports, given to us by third parties which are in accurate or incomplete.
- advice given by us in relation to documents that are governed by the laws of another country, where you’ve decided not to obtain local advice.
- any loss arising from actions that you take or refrain from taking in relation to commercial or legal risks on which we have expressed an opinion.
- any decisions made by you based on opinions given by us of a commercial or legal nature.
- any changes to your situation or changes to the law or how it’s interpreted after we’ve given any advice, unless we should reasonably have known about such changes at the time.
- any failure or delay in providing our services which is caused by us having to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
- any loss or damage incurred by any person other than you who relies upon, or acts or fails to act upon, any advice given by us to you.
- any loss or damage outside our reasonable control.
- any direct or indirect losses of anticipated savings, contracts, goodwill, opportunities, profits, revenues or any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
C. Limit of liability:
- If you’re acting in the course of your trade, business, craft or profession when you instruct us, you’ll be deemed a “trader” under UK and European consumer law. Unless pre-agreed otherwise, our total liability to any trader for any claim or series of claims arising from the same circumstances, is limited to CHF 1 million.
- If you’re an individual not acting in the course of your trade, business, craft or profession when you instruct us, you’ll be deemed a “consumer” under UK and European consumer law. If you’re a consumer, we’re responsible for loss or damage you incur that’s a foreseeable result of our breach or our failing to use reasonable care and skill.
- Should we engage third party advisers to assist in the delivery of our services to you, and you suffer loss or damage as a result of their engagement, insofar as we are responsible in any way for the loss or damage (including interest and costs) you incur, our liability to you will be limited to a fair proportion of your total loss or damage calculated by reference to the extent of our responsibility.
8. Termination and cancellation
A. Termination by you: You may terminate your agreement with us at any time in writing.
B. Termination by us: We may terminate our agreement with you on reasonable written notice where we’ve a good reason for doing so, for example, if you don’t pay our bills, you fail to make any payment on account of our fees or expenses or a conflict of interest arises.
C. Payment on termination: Unless you’ve disputed any amount of an invoice in good faith, you must pay all outstanding invoices and for any fees or expenses incurred by us up to the time of termination. Where you’ve made any payment on account of our fees or expenses, we’ll repay such monies to you less such fees or expenses.
D. Cancellation: If you’re an individual and you’re not acting in the course of your trade, business, craft or profession when you instruct us, you’ll be deemed a “consumer” under UK consumer law. In such circumstances, where you’ve agreed to instruct us at any place other than our office premises, you’ve the right to cancel your instructions within 14 days from such date. If you cancel during this period, we’ll promptly repay any monies received from you, unless you consented to us starting work within that period, in which case you’ll have to pay for the work done up to the time of cancellation. Notice of cancellation can be made by phone, email or by any other means.
9. Privacy
How we handle personal data: You can find out more about what personal data we collect relating to various groups of individuals and how we handle it in our Privacy Policy.
10. Other important terms
A. Anti-money laundering and compliance: We’re required under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 to identify and verify the identity of our clients and, sometimes, other individuals such as directors and persons having significant control over our clients. You agree to us making such checks using online databases. We’re also required under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and similar laws to report any information which gives rise to money laundering or terrorist financing concerns to the National Crime Agency or other similar agencies. We may be prohibited from continuing work on any related matters while any investigation is ongoing and from telling you whether we’ve had to make such a report.
B. Client account deposits: As we don’t have any control over the financial stability of our bank, we can’t be responsible for the failure of our bank or monies lost due to such failure. In such circumstances, you may be entitled to compensation under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
C. Communication: We prefer to avoid using paper where we can and will generally communicate by email, phone, video call or your other preferred channels. If you’d prefer us to encrypt all emails with you, please let us know, otherwise all emails will be unencrypted. We’ll do what we can to ensure that all communication with you is secure but can’t guarantee that they always will be secure. We recommend that you run anti-virus software when opening any attachments sent by us.
D. Complaints: If there’s any issue with the service we’ve provided, please let us know and we’ll respond to it. In the unlikely event that we’re unable to resolve any issue between us at the end of our complaints process, you may be entitled to complain to the Legal Ombudsman. You must take your complaint to the Legal Ombudsman:
- within six months of receiving a final response from your complaint; and
- no more than six years from the date of act/omission; or
- no more than three years from when you should reasonably have known there was a cause for complaint.
Before accepting a complaint for investigation, the Legal Ombudsman will check that you have tried to resolve things with us. If you would like more information about the Legal Ombudsman, please contact:
post: Legal Ombudsman, PO Box 6806, Wolverhampton, WV1 9WJ
email: [email protected]
phone: 0300 5550333
online: www.legalombudsman.org.uk
If you aren’t entitled to complain to the Legal Ombudsman, there are alternative dispute resolution bodies that are able to deal with complaints about legal services and if we agree to use such a scheme, we’ll inform you when notifying you of our final response to your complaint.
E. Conflicts of interest: If we become aware of any actual or potential conflict of interest between your interests and the interest of any other client of this firm, we may not be able to continue acting for you in a matter. If this happens, we’ll discuss it with you to agree the best way forward. If we become aware of, or have reasonable grounds to suspect a conflict of interest between your interests and the interests of our firm, or one of its directors, managers or employees, we will not be able to act for you, or continue acting for you. Similarly, if we become aware of, or have reasonable grounds to suspect a conflict of interest between the interests of our firm, or one of its directors, managers or employees, and those of a former client, we will not be able to act.
F. Confidentiality: We’re required to keep the affairs of current and former clients confidential, unless disclosure is required or permitted by law or you consent to such disclosure. We may be required to disclose confidential information to SRA as our regulator, our insurers for underwriting purposes and the National Crime Agency, the police, or other law enforcement agencies, if we reasonably suspect the commission of a criminal offence or a risk of harm to you or anyone else. Where we’re concerned that we can’t accept your instructions without disclosing or using any confidential information of someone else, we may have to terminate our agreement with you.
G. Copyright: We own the copyright and any other intellectual property rights in all documents we create for you. Provided you’ve paid all invoices relating to the creation of any documents, you’re free to copy, modify and use such documents for the specific purposes for which they were created. If you want to use any documents for any other purposes, you must ask us for permission to do so.
H. Files and original documents: We store all emails and documents electronically and are required to keep copies for a period of 7 years after a matter is closed. After that time, we may delete them. We don’t hold onto original documents and either forward them to you, or destroy them, at your request.
I. Reasonable adjustments: As a firm, promoting equality and diversity is really important to us. If we can assist you by providing our services in a different way, don’t hesitate to tell us and we’ll investigate how we can make reasonable adjustments to our service and discuss our proposals with you.
J. Severance: Each paragraph of these terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
K. Transferring this agreement to someone else: We may transfer our rights and obligations under our agreement with you to another organisation. We’ll always tell you in writing if this happens and we’ll ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under our agreement with you.
L. Waiver: If we delay or fail to exercise any right, power or remedy that we may have by law or under the terms of our agreement with you, this doesn’t mean that we waive such right, power or remedy now or in the future. Similarly, if we only exercise any right, power or remedy once or partially, this doesn’t mean that we’re prevented from exercising such right, power or remedy in full now or in the future.
M. Governing law and jurisdiction: The agreement between us will be governed by Swiss law. If any dispute arises, such dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Swiss courts; however, we may pursue any claim for unpaid fees or expenses in any appropriate jurisdiction.
N. Authority: Whilst we are engaged as your IP representative, you give us permission to complete and/or sign your name on forms or documents required in order for us to carry out that role and your instructions.
