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Avv Giacomo Bonelli

Work Department

Competition and Antitrust, Civil and Commercial Law, Privacy and Big Data, Intellectual and Industrial Property

Position

Partner

Career

Giacomo Bonelli mainly deals with Intellectual property matters (including trademarks, patents, and copyright). He also acquired an extensive experience in unfair competition, antitrust, advertising, media, telecommunications, and new technologies law. He assists domestic and international clients in both contentious (with a high rate of winning cases) and non-contentious issues.

He has successfully dealt with some leading cases as well as “Eredi Ponti vs Cassina and Eredi Ponti/Coin case” (a dispute on the protection of design copyright), “The Nintendo’s case” (a dispute on the technical protection measures for video games), “Kiko vs Wjcon case” (a dispute on copyright matters about the concept of commercial chain), “Lottomatica vs Sisal” (a dispute on unlawful competition of the “scratch card”).

He has been a member of the Italian Bar Association since 1985 and he was admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court in 2002.

He is author of many publications.

He regularly writes on the IP law matters for prestigious financial and economical Italian newspapers.

He has been invited as an expert of these topics in radio and television programmes.

He is a lecturer in various courses and has had until 2021, for over fifteen years, a regular teaching assignment in the post-graduate IP course for lawyers powered by Just Legal Services – School of Legal Education.

Competition and Antitrust:

• Geographical indication and origin in AA.VV. Diritto Alimentare, Walters Kluwer, 2017

• Modular Products, Patents and Slavish Imitation, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2002, pp. 86 and ff.
• Protection of Business Secrecy and Obligations of the Ex-Employee, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2002, pp. 65 and ff.
• The “Made in Italy”, in Milano Finanza, 29 April 2010, p. 19
• TV football rights and competition: notes of case on EU decision on the “free decoder” of 4 October 2011, in Milano Finanza, 11/10/2011, p. 9, and in Finanza e Mercati, 13/10/2011, p. 10

IP, trademarks, patents, design and software

• A new act on products made in Italy: well done, yet many aspects are still obscure, in Milano Finanza, 29 April 2010
• Copyright Infringement and Unauthorized Re-elaboration, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2006, pp. 293 and ff.
• Copyright Protection Term Extension and Protection of Third Parties’ Acquired Rights, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 1999, pp. 359 and ff.
• Copyright, Creativity, and Photographic Works, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2005, pp. 237 and ff.
• Damages for Copyright Infringement, in Il Diritto di Autore, Giuffrè, 2000, pp. 482 and ff.
• Implementation of the Enforcement Directive in Copyright Law, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2007, pp. 195 and ff.
• Industrial Design and Copyright Protection, in Il Diritto di Autore, Giuffrè, 2003, pp. 497 and  ff.
• Industrial Design and Transitional Period: Seventh Act, in Milano Finanza, 17/4/2012, page 9
• Industrial Design, in Milano Finanza, 13 April 2011, p. 9
• Industrial Design: An Italian Story, in Diritto24, 14/4/2011, and in Finanza e Mercati, 13/4/2011
• Industrial Property Specialized Chambers: A Hope or a Wishful Thinking? (And Side-Notes on the Reformation), in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2004, II, pp. 105 and ff.
• International Intellectual Property Law – European Jurisdictions – Italy, Wiley, 1995
• International Intellectual Property Law: Commentaries and Legislation – Italy, (co-auth.), edited by the Center for International Legal Studies of Salzburg (Austria), Commentary to the Italian Copyright Act, Oceana Publications, 2001
• Media, EU Law and the Principle of Equal Treatment Between State-Owned and Private Enterprises, in Il Diritto dell’Informazione e dell’Informatica, Giuffrè, 2001, pp. 281 and ff.
• Plagiarism of Music Works, in Il Diritto di Autore, Giuffrè, 2000, pp. 175 and ff.
• Primary and Secondary Uses of the Phonographic Record, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2000, pp. 191 and ff.
• Publication of interim measures (and some considerations on interim protection in general), in Rivista di Diritto Industriale, Giuffrè, 2006, pp. 127 and ff.
• Rehabilitation and Strengthening of the Trademark: Some Suggestions and Considerations, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 1999, pp. 132 and ff.
• Right of Reproduction, Technical Protection Measures and Private Copy, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2010, pages 183 and ff.
• The Elaboration of the Cinematographic Work, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2000, pp. 382 and ff.
• The Misleading Trademark and The Average Consumer, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2001, pp. 259 and ff.
• The New Provisions for Copyright Protection: A First Commentary to Act 284/2000, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2000, page 391
• TV Exploitation of Cinematographic Works, in Il Diritto Industriale, IPSOA, 2000, pp. 283 and ff.
• Video Clip Nature and Regulation, in Il Diritto di Autore, Giuffrè, 2001, pp. 303 and ff.

IT, Media and Entertainment

• If Technology Runs Twice As Fast As Law: The Netlog Case, in Finanza e Mercati, 28/2/2012, page 8
• Criminal Measures for Copyright Protection, Particularly On Line, in Il Diritto d’Autore, Giuffrè, 2004, pp. 481 and ff.
• Trademarks and Renowned Names, Homonymy and On-Line Protection, in Rivista di Diritto Industriale, Giuffrè, 2003, I, pp. 191 and ff.
• The Web-Site as an Intellectual Work, in Il Diritto dell’Informazione e dell’Informatica, Giuffrè, 2002, pp. 199 and ff.
• Domain Names: Opportunities and Scope of a Legislative Intervention, in Il Diritto Industriale on line, IPSOA, 2002
• Copyright protection on the Web, in Milano Finanza, 14/07/2011, p. 9

Litigation and Arbitration

• Criminal Measures for Copyright Protection, Particularly On Line, in Il Diritto d’Autore, Giuffrè, 2004, pp. 481 and ff.
• Publication of interim measures (and some considerations on interim protection in general), in Rivista di Diritto Industriale, Giuffrè, 2006, pp. 127 and ff.

Big Data

• La tutela dei Big Data quale segreto industriale, in Quotidiano Giuridico, Wolters Kluwer, 21/3/2019
• Le tutele civilistiche dei Big Data, in Quotidiano Giuridico, Wolters Kluwer, 13/6/2019
• Le tutele contrattuali dei Big Data quali segreti industriali o informazioni riservate, in Quotidiano Giuridico, Wolters Kluwer, 9/10/2019
• Le tutele penalistiche dei Big Data, in Quotidiano Giuridico, Wolters Kluwer, 26/6/2019

Co-author, Collana Metodo Altalex, ed. Wolters Kluwer, 2018 in Quotidiano Giuridico Wolters Kluwer, 9/10/2018

Languages

Giacomo Bonelli is fluent in English.

Education

Giacomo Bonelli graduated from University of Milan in 1981.