Gusztáv Bacher

One interviewee describes him as "a very smart lawyer", while another enthuses that he has an "in-depth knowledge of all IP matters."

Chambers Europe, 2019, Intellectual Property Department

The Intellectual Property lawyers "reach the best possible outcome for the benefit of client within the shortest possible time,"

Chambers Europe, 2019, Intellectual Property Department

Gusztáv Bacher "has broad experience and practical views, and his opinions are focused on the possible solutions", and he recommended for his "theoretical knowledge". 

Chambers Europe, 2016, IP

Gusztáv Bacher is a “talented professional with deep academic knowledge who is quick to understand the requirements of a case. He is precise, efficient and works at a fast pace. Brilliant in all fields of IP law, he is a particularly superb litigator.”

World Trademark Review (WTR 1000 - The World's Leading Trademark Professionals), 2016

Rankings:

• Chambers Europe, 2019, 2018, Intellectual Property: Band 1
• Chambers Europe, 2019, 2018, Intellectual Property (Individual Ranking): Band 1

• Chambers and Partners, 2017, Intellectual Property (Individual and Firm): Band 1

• Legal500, 2019, 2018, 2017, Intellectual Property (Individual ranking): Leading Individual
• Legal500, 2019, 2018, Intellectual Property: Tier 1

• IAM's The World's Leading Patent Practitioners, Gold Band 2016

• World Trademark Review (WTR 1000 - The World's Leading Trademark Professionals) - Gold Band 2017

Awards:

• In 2015 he was presented with the "Eötvös Award" by the Budapest Bar Association
• Winner of the ILO Client Choice award in the category of "Intellectual Property: Patents" both in 2013 and 2014

Bar Memberships:

• Budapest Bar Association (since 2011)

Other professional memberships:

• Arbitrator listed on the Roll of Arbitrators of the Permanent Arbitration Court attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• International League of Competition Law (LIDC): President between 2012 and 2014, First Vice President (2010-2012), International Rapporteur on Comparative Advertising (2004), Secretary General (2007-2010)
• Hungarian Competition Law Association, Vice-Chairman since 2015

• AIPPI: Secretary General of the Hungarian Group
• Ethics Commission of the Hungarian Advertising Association, Chairman since 2011
• Member of the Presidium of the Intellectual Property Expert Committee and Copyright Expert Committee attached to the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (as head of the panel or member of the panel)
• Amcham Hungary

Head of IP Committee of Amcham between 2008-2012

• MIE (Hungarian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and copyright), Board Member since 2002
• Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA)

Member of the International Sales Law Commission

• The Licensing Executives Society (LES)

Member of the Hungarian Team

• Association of Private Law Teachers (Hungary)

• International Visitor Leadership Program (focus on protection of IP rights, organized and funded by the U.S. Department of State Office, 2010)
• Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law (Munich, 2005)
• Master of Laws (LL.M.), CEU, (International Business Law, 2001)
• Post-graduate course on International Trade Law organized by the Asser Instituut at The Hague in 1999
• J.D., Eötvös Loránd Faculty of State and Legal Science (1998, summa cum laude)
• Studies at the Faculty of Law in Vienna (1997)