SUMMARY
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ITALIAN IP LAW
The «anti-infringement package» examined in Parliament. Renewal of the delegation for revision of the Code of Industrial Property (CIP) also under appraisal
EPC 2000 ratified in Italy: new rules for European patents
Implementation in Italy of EC Directive 2005/29 on unfair commercial practices
Ministerial Decree 3 October 2007 introduces prior art searches for Italian patents, making the EPO the competent authority for conducting such searches, but also contains a questionable rule on lapse
The Senate approves a Bill to reintroduce the Company Procedure for IP cases
THE CASE
Trade Mark protection extends to all form of linkage: the decisive importance of consumer perception (Court of Milan, order 27 August 2007) – The text of the order and of the petition
THE ARTICLE
Trade Marks, models, newspaper titles and domain names: a year of case law (October 2006-October 2007) – Summary of an article by Professor Cesare Galli published in AIDA
ABOUT US
Professor Cesare Galli called onto the Committee for Revision of the Copyright Law
The work of Professor Cesare Galli in the High Commission for the Fight against Infringement
The Chambers «The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business» Guide once more includes our firm amongst the leading IP law firms, declaring Professor Cesare Galli to be one of the «number 1» lawyers in this field and again indicating Ms Bogni as a leading Italian IP lawyers
Ms Caterina Paschi joins the team of the Milan offices of our firm
Another Associate of our firm comes first in the IP and Competition Law Research Doctorate
The review Top Legal interviews Professor Cesare Galli on the new EU labeling rules
Recent IP decisions obtained by our firm (Trade Marks, Protection against Linkage; Infringement by a disloyal licensee; Injunctive protection against breach of delimitation agreements; Revocation through non-use – Patents: Repeating a technical Expertise; Connection and joinder of cases against parties involved at different levels of alleged infringement – Designs and models: non-protectability of a «combination» model against a product which does not copy the dominant feature of the protectable combination – Competition: Use of images from the catalogue of a licensor on the site of a disloyal licensee; Non-authorized use of photographs of a competitor’s products and breach of settlement – International IP work of the firm)
Our latest publications and conferences
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