IP Law Galli

Intellectual Property

Founding and Managing Partner

Admitted to the Italian Bar Association in 1989 and in 2001 to the special register of the Supreme Court of Italy.

Cesare Galli is a lawyer and Chair of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Parma (where he teaches Fashion, Innovation and New Media Law in the Law degree program and Patent Law in the interdisciplinary degree in Biotechnology. From 2024–2025 academic year, he also teaches “Food Design and Intellectual Property Law” in English within the second level Master's program in Global Food Law).

Since 2002 he has been listed in international specialized guides as one of the leading Italian experts in the protection of intellectual property.

He usually advises major companies on worldwide anti-counterfeiting, licensing and IPRs management strategies and he is often asked to review and manage the most sensitive IP aspects of M&A transactions, developing creative solutions for the most problematic aspects thereof and delimitation of the respective rights of the parties.

He has been dealing with IP enforcement matters before the GC, CJEU, Italian national Courts and Courts established in third countries (in particular South Korea, China, and the US, where he served also as Expert Witness), often co-ordinating the enforcement strategies of the Clients at a global level.

He has advised and assisted clients in the most important IP Italian cases in the last 35 years. In 1999 he obtained the first Italian ruling in the field of biotech patents, in 2004 the first Italian ruling on the validity of a computer implemented invention patent, and between 2005 and 2023 some of the most innovative and progressive measures for the protection of trade secrets and well-known trademarks in particular against look-alikes, including a ruling of the European Court of Justice, which forced the Italian Government to protect the industrial design works more effectively.

Since 2004, he has been a member of all the group of experts appointed by the Italian Parliament and Government to draft the reform of IP Law, which includes the implementation in Italy of Community Directive no. 2004/48/EC and the 2010 and 2023 reform of the Italian Code of Industrial Property. Since their establishment he has been a Legal Expert of CNAC – National Council on Anti-Counterfeit (now CNALCIS - National Council for the Fight against Infringement and Italian Sounding), a member of the European Counterfeiting and Piracy Observatory launched within DG Markt of the European Commission (now a legal Expert of the Observatory on the Infringement of IP Rights at EUIPO), and he also works on a permanent basis with INDICAM, Confindustria, AIPPI, Centro Studi Anticontraffazione (as Scientific Director) and AmCham on IP issues. He is also Honorary Fellow of Istituto Bruno Leoni.

He is the author of an impressive number of publications on all aspects of intellectual property. He has edited the largest commentary (4,000 pages) on all national and EU IP Law provisions (GALLI-GAMBINO, “Codice Commentato della Proprietà Industriale e Intellettuale”, Torino, UTET-Wolters Kluwer, 2011 – now he is in charge of editing the new edition).

As Co-Editor of Il diritto industriale (the most important Italian IP Law Review) he collects and analyses enforcement-related case-law to monitor trends and identify new developments in intellectual property rights infringements and management strategies.

Italian, English

Ordine degli Avvocati di Milano;

INDICAM;

AMCHAM;

LES;

UPCLA;

Senior Fellow of Bruno Leoni Instutute.

Master’s Degree, Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth, Milan, Magna Cum Laude; Ph.D. in Intellectual Property Law, University of Ferrara; Full Professor of IP law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Parma.