24 Oct, 2024 Don't Dig Your Own Grave with Bad Faith: A Trade mark Battle in Funeral Services By Andrea Vantini In the world of funeral services, the recent Taffo family trade mark dispute in Italy has drawn significant attention. The Court of Rome...
15 Oct, 2024 Ceci n’est pas a case about GI evocation (but about unfair competition!) By Rachele Macor Court of Venice ascertains that use of the words “Balsamico di…” and “Ristretto di Balsamico…”, alone or together with “aceto”, for...
02 Jul, 2024 All for one and one for all? The Italian Supreme Court clarifies the requirements for exclusive licences granted by joint trade mark owners By Francesca Rombola Case reference – Italian Supreme Court, Giovanni Acanfora + alter vs Legea S.r.l., decision n. 10637/24, 19 April 2024 Summary In a...
26 Jun, 2024 Name Protection Rights: Totò, more than a stage name By Martina Fossati By PI order of December 27, 2023, the IP Specialized Division of the Court of Rome provided some interesting remarks regarding the...
22 May, 2024 Look-alikes and trade dress protection: guidance from Italian Court on how brand owners can take enforcement action against third party imitators By Cristiana Andreotta To what extent can product packaging be an illicit look-alike of a competitor’s product packaging? A ruling by the Court of Turin...
06 Dec, 2023 “Facing” the possibility of registering human faces as trade marks – EUIPO clears up the issue By Pietro Dettori It is well known that one of the main functions of a trade mark is to identify a person or trader’s products or services. In this way,...
29 Nov, 2023 Weak or not: Boss of what? – An Italian dispute over the strength of a trade mark By Federico Manstretta On 20th September 2023, the Italian Supreme Court issued an interesting decision that clarifies some questions concerning the...
12 Oct, 2023 Reasonable Royalties: over 350,000 EUR awarded by Court of Milan in trade mark infringement case By Francesca Rombola By judgment of April 17, 2023, the Court of Milan, holding on a case of trade mark infringement in the apparel sector, condemned the...
28 Jun, 2023 Ferrero definitively succeeds in protecting its rights on “Tic Tac” shape trade marks in Italy By Giovanni Galimberti Francesca Rombola Fulvio Mellucci Andrea Giussani Martina Fossati +2 more... Show less In a case handled by our Italian IP team some time ago (which was previously reported on this blog here), the Court of Turin first, and...
12 Jan, 2023 Acquiescence of an Italian unregistered trade mark. Is it possible? By Andrea Vantini Italian wine: a worldwide excellence but also source of several trade mark infringement disputes. This time, in Bricco Maiolica vs....
21 Nov, 2022 Italian Supreme Court applies ECJ Opel vs. Autec: Ferrari scale models do not infringe Ferrari’s trade marks By Pietro Dettori Cristiana Andreotta At what point can the reproduction of a well-known sign on miniature models be deemed as infringing third party trade marks? In decision...
10 Nov, 2022 The first Italian decision on NFTs By Andrea Vantini While famous Hermès vs Rothschild and Nike vs. StockX disputes are still pending, Italy has issued the first European decision on...
14 Jul, 2022 Unregistered Trade Marks in Italy: Italian courts evaluate witness evidence in establishing “prior use” of a trade mark By Pietro Dettori Italian Supreme Court, January 28, 2022, order no. 2648 Pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 4 of the Italian Intellectual Property Code...
14 Jul, 2022 Sandokan teaches you how to defend against bad faith trade mark filings By Cristiana Andreotta Italian case law pronounces once more on bad faith trade mark filings in the context of extending pre-existing trade mark rights with the...
01 Feb, 2022 Have you ever thought of the “Hop On Hop Off” bus as a colour registered trade mark? By Francesca Rombola Martina Fossati By precautionary order of March 9, 2021 – then upheld by order of May 10, 2021 – the IP Specialised Division of the Court of Milan...