In a recently published decision (Case 7416, Decision 33/2015) the Italian Board of Appeal issued its ruling on an appeal filed by Sebastiano Cardillo Ciccione requesting reversal…
In early 2015 the Court of Milan issued several decisions concerning the application of Article 79 of the Industrial Property Code, which was amended in 2010. In some of these…
The Court of Cassation (Civil Division, Section I, April 13 2015, no 7414) recently upheld a Milan Court of Appeal decision holding that, with respect to trademarks, wine and oil…
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…