MICHELE
PAPA

SENIOR ASSOCIATE

T. +39 02 54123094
F. +39 02 54124344

Michele Papa
EXPERTISE

Trademarks
Designs
Copyright
Patents
Domain names
Trade secrets
Advertising
Unfair competition

MAIN PUBLICATONS

Tutelabilità autorale del progetto di architettura d’interni tra compiutezza espressiva, creatività e stile personale“, in Il Diritto Industriale, IV, 2021;
La confezione dei “TicTac” come marchio tridimensionale oltre gli impedimenti della forma tecnicamente necessitata e del valore sostanziale”, in Il Diritto Industriale, V, 2020;
Sigarette elettroniche, pubblicità online e liceità della ricondivisione dei c.d. user generated contents “vietati”” in Diritto di Internet, I, 2020;
Uso lecito del marchio altrui e profili autorali nel settore delle esposizioni d’arte: il caso della personale di Banksy al Mudec di Milano“, in Il Diritto Industriale, III, 2019;
Contribution to the Italian chapter in “Internet: Laws and Regulatory Regimes“, II ed., Juris Publishing Inc., 2017.

Michele Papa provides consultancy and litigation services in the field of trademarks, designs, copyright and related rights, patents, domain names, trade secrets and unfair competition, with particular regard to issues relating to industrial design, automotive, fashion and art industries.

He is a teaching fellow in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Parma and regularly collaborates with the law reviews Il Diritto Industriale and Diritto di Internet. He is also a member of the Designs Standing Committee of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI). In 2022 and 2023 he has been recognized as “Rising star” by international review magazine Managing IP (IP STARS).

He joined the IP LAW GALLI firm in March 2018.

EDUCATION
Law Degree summa cum laude at the University of Brescia (2014);
CopyrightX at the Harvard Law School (2020);
PatentX at the Harvard Law School (2023).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Internship at Court of Brescia, civil section no. III (November 2012 – April 2013);
Traineeship and subsequent collaboration at the Martini Manna Avvocati firm (November 2014 – February 2018).

ADMISSIONS 
Admission to Court of Milan bar (2019)

LANGUAGES
Italian and English

ASSOCIATION
AIPPI – International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
WIPO ADR Young

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