After 10 years of litigation the Court of Cassation recently ruled that an agent’s mistake does not excuse non-observance of a mandatory deadline for paying patent renewal fees.
According to a recently published decision of the Italian Board of Appeal, the level of skill and understanding of an audience to which a pre-filing disclosure is made has little…
A recent Italian Patent and Trademark Office (ITPO) decision to register a trademark consisting of two complex Chinese characters was based on the distinctiveness of two Chinese…
Paolo Ernesto Crippa, Dorotea Rigamonti La Legge di Stabilità 2015 ha riscritto la disciplina del credito d’imposta per investimenti in R&S che ora è riconosciuto:
Con la legge di stabilità 2015 (L. n. 190 del 23.12.2014) e con il successivo decreto “investment compact” (D.L. n. 3 del 24.01.2015) viene introdotto in Italia un regime…
In SI Engineering Srl v Lantek Systems Srl the Court of Turin held that when technical information meets all of the requirements for trade secret protection and reverse…
On March 4 2015 the Criminal Division of the Court of Cassation issued its decision in Metro-Goldwin-Mayer v Iervolino. The court held that a three-dimensional (3D) reproduction…
In Bio Protect Group v Bang & Clean the Court of Milan held that the Italian portion of European Patent 1362213 B1 (EP’213) was invalid because the claims extended beyond the…