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Intellectual Property

The FIRM provides all-round legal assistance in the highly-structured world of Intellectual Property, with particular reference to: patents, trade marks, models, designs, trade names and other distinguishing marks, know how and business secrets, domain names, unfair competition, IT, e.commerce, copy rights, geographical indications and designations of origin, publishing, media, cartel defense, advertising, consumer protection and class action, and privacy.

 

The FIRM has won numerous victories before both judicial (national and foreign Tribunals and Civil and Penal Courts) and administrative authorities (UAMI, EPO, Italian Antitrust Authority, Giurì established under the “Istituto di Autodisciplina Pubblicitaria” (N.d.T.: Advertising Standards Authority).

The FIRM has multi-decade experience in the judicial and extrajudicial defense of intellectual property rights, and is recognised at national and international level as one of the leading practices in the field.

The FIRM’s lawyers also carry out customs surveillance activities and have a consolidated experience in customs detention procedures.

 

In the globalization of the market and of Intellectual Property, the FIRM has a particular expertise in the management of international, Pan-European and cross-border disputes.

 

Currently, thanks to a large network of correspondents and to the presence within its staff of professionals with an international background, the FIRM is dealing with the management of disputes before foreign authorities.

 

The FIRM’s lawyers offer ENTERPRISES their consolidated experience in arbitration and mediation and, more generally, in alternative dispute resolutions.

 

As regards extrajudicial advice, the FIRM provides support to ENTERPRISES in developing the most appropriate corporate strategy: from the management of IP portfolios to the drafting of licensing agreements and transfer of technology, to the valuation and economic and financial exploitation of corporate assets.

 

The FIRM, thanks to the collaboration of highly specialised professionals with skills acquired also outside Italy, is able to guarantee ENTERPRISES, in a comprehensive vision of the dynamics of Intellectual Property, the resolution of any problems related to the enterprise’s intangible fixed assets.

 

The FIRM’s lawyers have published a series of articles in specialty journals, and teach at various universities, public and private organizations, and industrial and trade associations.

 

The FIRM participates, through its lawyers, in the study of issues related to Intellectual Property, as well as in the analysis and drafting of the regulations of reference, operating constructively in organizations that aim at influencing the legislative institutions, or in the major national and international scientific committees and research associations such as LES, AIPPI, INTA, AIPLA, UNION, and FICPI.