For more than twenty years, John Moetteli has been a practicing patent practitioner/attorney-at-law specialized in intellectual property, licensed before the US and Swiss Patent and Trademark Offices, the European Union Intellectual Property Office and the Liechtenstein IP Authority. He's also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the District of Columbia Bar (Washington D.C), as well as the Bucharest Bar. Further, he’s a registered Professional Engineer, currently on inactive status.

Since 1997, John has been based in Europe and has represented famous individuals, luxury watch brands, as well as innovative companies, both small and large, before the US, Swiss, EU, Liechtenstein and The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). In 2002, John founded what later became Da Vinci Partners LLC, owner of the “Da Vinci” brand for legal services in essentially every industrialized country in the World. Da Vinci Partners LLC counsels primarily European and US clients in Patent, Trademark, Design and Copyright matters as well as IP litigation issues and prosecutes patents in the IT, software, business methods, manufacturing process, electro-mechanical, medical device, and sports products fields.

John holds an engineering degree, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree, and a Masters in International Management (with emphasis on doing business in China). In addition, he’s followed courses on Chinese Patent Law, including co-editing a well-known manual on international industrial property. He is also trained in mediation and arbitration through World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) courses. https://davincipartners.com/personnel/john-moetteli/