Intellectual property
and competition law

EXPERTISE
AREAS

Judicial and extrajudicial assistance in the field of:

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Trademarks, patents, designs, copyright, trade secrets, PDOs and PGIs, domain names, new plant varieties.

UNFAIR COMPETITION

Parasitism, servile imitation, denigration, confusability, transfer of employees, appropriation of qualities.

information technology

Marketing, e-commerce, online counterfeiting, blockchain, AI, software development and licence agreements.

ADVERTISING LAW

Misleading and comparative advertising, product placement, ambush marketing and campaigns’ lawfulness assessments.

COMMERCIAL LAW

NDA, IP exploitation, research, licence, distribution, franchising, publishing, co-branding and service agreements.

ANTITRUST LAW

Abuse of dominant position, concertation, consumer protection, anticompetitive agreements.

THE FIRM

IPLAWGALLI firm was established in 2004 and is still led by Professor Cesare Galli,
Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law at University of Parma
and associate of the Studio Vanzetti e Associati firm from 1986 to 2003.

Born as a boutique firm, highly specialized in IP law and characterized by the personal imprint of its founder,
the firm has maintained its high reputation by combining it with a firmly market-oriented
approach that aims to enhance the procedural instruments in order to reach positive results in the short term.
The firm preserves this attitude without neglecting the importance of highly professional and knowledgeable lawyers
who team up with the leader with shared goals and methods and proceed in a mainly international context
but, at the same time, they demonstrate a strong rootedness in the most significant areas of the Italian economic life.