On 6.12.2023, I signed a settlement at an “instruction hearing” at the Commercial Court in Aarau, in which it is stated that my lawsuit, in which I had asserted the copyrights to the name and logo “the bird’s eye jazz club”, is deemed to have been withdrawn and that the association may continue to operate the well-known jazz club with this name.
I did not do this because I now think the club is in the right with the registration of my name and trademark and the way it has treated me, or because I was made some kind offer of compensation and an agreement was reached in some way, but because unfair means were used to deprive my lawsuit of its foundation and I do not have the means to achieve anything in view of the existing overpower in this way. I would risk completely losing what little I have left in material terms after this raid.
The previous statements and newspaper articles still provide information on the details and background to how this came about (see below). The article by David Klein in particular provides a brief and accurate analysis of the situation. As a musician, he has known the club from the very beginning, as well as the scene and me as a musician and director of bird’s eye. The history of the club’s origins is described in detail in the 10th anniversary booklet. See “Founders of the bird’s eye”.
Letter to my lawyer Matthias Städeli April 2025