About me
I am a final-year doctoral candidate in Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, where I investigate how intellectual property law and emerging technologies shape governance in digital markets.
Research Agenda
My research examines how intellectual property law shapes innovation and market governance in cultural and technology-driven industries. Combining legal analysis with empirical methods, I investigate authentication technologies, digital resale markets, and the diffusion of cultural value in global markets. My current projects draw on survey data as well as fieldwork across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
News
TBA
Ongoing Research
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry, 2026, under review.
Blockchain, Lemons, and the New Limits of Trademark Exhaustion, 2026, under review.
Luxury Brands as Industrial Policy: The Political Economy of Selective Distribution in the EU, 2025, working paper.
Selected Publications
Fashioning Authenticity: How Digital Product Passports Could Shape the Future of Trademark Law, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice – Special Issue on Fashion Law, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2025.
SwiLTra-Bench: The Swiss Legal Translation Benchmark (co-author), Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025.
Counterfeit Goods and Organized Crime: An Intractable Problem, Review of Counterfeit Goods and Organised Crime by Prof. Michael Blakeney, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Vol. 19, no. 11, 2024.
A Taxonomy for Blockchain-Based Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) (co-author), IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2023.
Awards
2025
Best Conference Paper, Asian Society for Innovation and Policy Conference (ASIP)
Luxury, IP, and Cultural Innovation – An Influential Relationship
Kaohsiung City
2025
Best Conference Paper,
Institute of Brand and Innovation Law PhD Workshop, University College London
Luxury, IP, and Cultural Innovation – An Influential Relationship
London, United Kingdom
Selected Presentations
2026
Annual Congress of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), PhD Workshop
Title TBC
University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
2025
Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP) Association
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
University of Antwerp, Belgium
2025
IP and Technology in the 21st Century: Challenges in the Next Decade
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
2025
NYU Blockchain Lab
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
New York University (NYU), New York
2025
Invited Presentation at the Center for Trustworthy AI
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul
2025
Young Voices in Law & Technology
Intellectual Property & Cultural Diffusion: Insights from the Swiss Watchmaking Industry
The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong SAR
Relevant Research Appointements
2021-2026
Scientific Researcher
Center for Law & Economics
ETH Zurich
2025
Visiting Scholar
Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics
New York University (NYU), Stern Business School
2024-2025
Visiting Research Associate
Faculty of Law
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Relevant Education
PhD (Dr. sc.)
ETH Zurich, 2026 (exp.)
Law & Economics
Master of Law
University of Fribourg, 2018
Law , spec. in Litigation, Corporate, Tax, IP, Competition, Contracts
Certificate in Transnational Legal Studies
Georgetown Law Center, Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, 2017
Comparative Law spec. IP, Tax & Banking
Bachelor of Law
University of Fribourg, 2016
Law, mention “utriusque iuris“
Christophe Gösken 