On 22 May 2023, the Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) issued its judgment in case No. T-0761/20 on the appeal against the Examination Division's decision to reject...

At the end of a process started in 2010, after three public consultations on an equal number of proposals, on December 12, 2012 AGCOM, adopted regulations that established the powers that it can exercise in case of breaches of copyrights in the Internet.

On 18 May 2023, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a press release announcing that the Italian government has reached an agreement...

On 6 May 2023, the Court of Florence issued its judgement in a case for the alleged breach of copyright on an architectural project authored the plaintiff for a third-party client.

On 23 March 2023, the Italian Supreme Court issued its Order No. 8396 on the determination of equitable damages. The Supreme Court recalled that the application...

With Notice No. 26/2023 published on 19 September 2023, the World International Property Organisation amended several provisions of the Regulations under the Protocol ...

Following the abolition of the "professor's privilege" reported here, on 26 September 2023, the Italian Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy adopted the guidelines mentioned in Article 65.5 ...

On 28 September 2023, Advocate General Szpunar ("AG") issued his final conclusions on Case C-470/21 (La Quadrature du Net, Fédération des fournisseurs d'accès à Internet associatifs.

On 1 June 2023, the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court 2013/C 175/01 will come into force. Several aspects of post-grant proceedings before the European Patent Office ("EPO")...

On 18 July 2023, the Italian Chamber of Deputies passed the bill which amends the Italian Industrial Property Code ("Code"), introducing relevant changes to the previous version...

On 2 May 2023, the Italian Senate passed the bill ("Bill") amending the Italian Industrial Property Code ("Code"). The Bill consists of 32 articles and sets forth relevant...

On 19 May 2023, the Italian Supreme Court issued its judgement No. 21640/2023 on the counterfeiting of trademarks consisting of Gucci and Burberry pattern logos (the "Trademarks") applied on favour ribbons.

The EU General Court has overturned EUIPO and Board of Appeal decisions, ruling that the shape of a lipstick may be registered as a 3D trade mark insofar as it represents a memorable shape that will be perceived by the relevant public ...

On 10 March 2023, the Second Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) handed down its decision in case No. R-1422/2022-2 (the "Decision")...