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June
2017
Class 35: registering retail and wholesale services at the UIBM
Since2016theItalianPatentandTrademarkOffice(UIBM)hastaken aharshstanceonregistrationsfor‘retailand wholesaleservices’in Class 35. During this time, the UIBM has consistently…
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May
2017
A tale of statues and camels: mass-produced items eligible for copyright protection
On March 23 2017, the Court of Cassation, the highest Italian court, upheld an appeal filed by Italian company Thun Spa against a 2012 judgment of the Venice Court of Appeal,…
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April
2017
CLINIQUE: reputation alone may not cure trademark's inherent weakness
In a recently published decision (Civil Division, Section I, December 7 2016, no 25168) the Court of Cassation held that although the trademark CLINIQUE was well known in the…
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March
2017
Chemical intermediates: patentability and infringement under the doctrine of equivalents
The Supreme Court has written the final chapter in a long-running litigation between Industriale Chimica and Bayer in connection with the production of drospirenone when it ruled…
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January
2017
International report - Patronymic trademarks in the fashion industry: what’s in a name?
In the fashion industry it is common to use and register the name of a designer as a trademark. But what happens when a designer assigns his or her company's IP assets, including…
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December
2016
When employment contracts are silent: remuneration for employees' inventive activities
The Court of Cassation (Italy's highest court) recently issued a decision concerning whether a scientific director who contributed to an invention but whose employment contract…
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November
2016
The double identity of OSCAR: a trademark and a common term
The Supreme Court recently held that the trademark OSCAR was valid with respect to the film industry and thus gave its owner, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…
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October
2016
Court of Cassation clarifies management of simultaneous validity and infringement proceedings
A recent Court of Cassation decision has affirmed the principle that when separate infringement and invalidity proceedings are pending simultaneously, the court managing the…
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