We advise on the IP aspects of our client’s most complex and business-critical projects, including contracts, technology adoption, transactions and disputes.
The firm regularly advises clients on the commercial use of their intellectual property through licensing, merchandising and other applications, as well as guide them through the IP aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
In today’s global marketplace, the development and protection of intellectual property (IP) is crucial to the commercial viability of any enterprise. As IP law is continually being reshaped by the rapid pace of technological change, the acquisition, exploitation, and enforcement of IP rights is an increasingly complex undertaking. To meet this ongoing challenge, companies of all kinds turn to our Intellectual Property practice to provide the legal advice that pertain to the worldwide management of IP assets.
The firm is instrumental in prosecuting and registering IP assets of all kinds, helping clients to apply for and obtain patents, trademark registrations, and copyright registrations. We regularly negotiate licensing agreements, joint ventures, and technology transfer agreements. We provide due diligence assistance regarding the IP aspects of transactional matters. And in an area where heated disputes are inevitable, we protect and litigate our clients’ IP rights.
Advising on related issues such as regulatory concerns, privacy, data protection, distribution agreements and branding and patenting strategies also forms a core part of the firm’s practice.
Trademark, copyright and patents
Trademark, copyright and patent advice. We can tell you whether your property can be protected and what you have to do to protect it.
Enforcement of IP rights
Anti-piracy initiatives and enforcement of IP rights against competitors. We can help work with government agencies to enforce your rights, take legal action against pirates. We can help you maintain your market position by taking swift and effective action against competitors who seek to erode product or service innovation.
Other issues
Internet and domain name issues, media and advertising law, packaging, labeling, marking, regulatory requirements, franchising, trade secret protection and related data protection.
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Thermal transfer printers
– advising an Italian company operating in the thermal transfer printers for the textile industry on its settlement and licensing arrangement with a German Group.
Database on cardiovascular disease in children
– advising the not-for-profit Italian Association for the fight against thrombosis on its licensing arrangement relating to the development, promotion and operation of a database committed to the prevention of cardiovascular disease in children.
Machinery for printing and applying identification codes on cut fabric
– advising two Italian manufacturers in the negotiations of a patent license agreement with the German inventor and assistance in the relevant proceedings lodged by the latter before the Court of Munich;