Italian Tribunal of Design

The Italian Giuri del Design (Tribunal of Design) has recently commenced its activities, handling its first cases and, on various occasions, we have already attended on behalf of our clients. Such panel created at the initiative of ADI (the Association of Italian Design), of Confindustria (General Confederation of Italian Industry), and of some Italian scholars, has as its purpose to ensure - by means of self regulation of the sector, and following the steps of the well known and prestigious Disciplinary Panel for Advertising (Giuri di Autodisciplina Pubblicitaria) - the best possible protection of works of industrial design, the upholding of the principles of professional conduct in this field, the protection of those working in the said field in the face of unfair copying and also, last but not least, protection against lacunae which exist in the Italian law in this field.