Pubblicazioni (21)

• Patrizia Franceschina

On July 5 2017, the Supreme Court of Cassation (Case 16401/17) recognised for the first time that punitive damages may be applied in connection with civil liability under Italian…

• Enrico Eterno

In SI Engineering Srl v Lantek Systems Srl the first instance of the Court of Turin confirmed that, when software ‒ namely a proprietary format for storing both geometrical data…

• Paolo Viscuso

Since2016theItalianPatentandTrademarkOffice(UIBM)hastaken aharshstanceonregistrationsfor‘retailand wholesaleservices’in Class 35. During this time, the UIBM has consistently…

• Dorotea Rigamonti

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,…

• Alessandra Naia

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…

• Elena Comoglio

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…

• Miriam Mangieri

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…

• Luca Cristinelli

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…