Hands off that domain name! Avast obtains injunction and recovers “avast.it” in record time
In one of the first cases decided under the amended text of Section 133 of the Italian Industrial...
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A biscuit too sour to swallow for Mondelez: Italian court denies protection to the shape of Mikado
On April 16, 2014 the Court of Milan issued an interesting decision regarding 3-D trademarks that...
Stretching Trademark Laws to Protect Product Packaging
On April and July 2013, the Civil Court of Turin issued two interesting decisions – in the frame of...
Bad faith in philanthropy and trademark registrations: what goes around, comes around
In March 2013, the Court of Turin issued a landmark ruling which invalidated the registration of...
The bank account freeze: a forceful measure to safeguard the industrial and intellectual property
The Court of Turin issued two interesting judgments ordering the preventive attachment and freezing...
Pharmaceutical business: new borders for the application of abuse of dominant position
The Court of Justice of the European Union held, for the first time, that a claim based on abuse of...
Protection of applied art works by copyright in France: Counterfeiters wear out their shoe leather before French Courts
The Court of First Instance in Paris recently ruled that the sandals EXTREME DIOR created by...
Twenty-year saga: Jägermeister vs. Unicum. Devices included in a complex trademark may be independently protected
In a twenty-year-old - and ongoing - case followed by Studio Legale Jacobacci & Associates, the...
“Employers: beware of an employee’s excessive devotion to the product”
The Court of Turin recently issued an order prohibiting Nespresso Italiana SpA from giving...
Italian court says use of a prominent design in a trademark is no defense if the acronyms are similar
The court of Bologna declared the MST device trademark null and void on the grounds of likelihood...
The Evolution of Product Placement
We publish the chapter "L'evoluzione del Product Placement" curated by Claudia Scapicchio...