We have several decades of extensive experience in judicial and extrajudicial handling of matters related to industrial, intellectual, and information technology property law.
Within the macro-area of IP/IT, the department provides specific services on the following matters:
- Patents
- Trade marks and other distinctive marks
- Supplementary protection certificates
- Copyright
- Design
- Geographical indications
- Trade secrets, know-how and confidential information
- Unfair competition
- Advertising and labelling
- Telecommunications, Media and Information Technology
- E-commerce
- Franchising and licensing agreements.
Our activities encompass:
- All types of Italian and foreign litigation dispute resolution
- The development of strategies to protect patents, marks and design (whether national or transnational), in close collaboration with the client and the client’s consultants
- Support in joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions in highly technological sectors and sectors with a high level of IP rights
- Negotiation and drafting of all types of contracts concerning industrial, intellectual and IT property, including licence and technology transfer agreements.
Since the department was set up we have been by our clients’ side in all the latest and most controversial developments in their respective sectors, even in high stakes “bet-the-company” suits. We have developed specific expertise in the transnational IP litigation sector and examined in-depth the interaction between IPR and antitrust. The team is particularly versed and has extensive experience in Life Sciences patent litigation and litigation in the electrononics and IT sectors (e.g., FRAND and software licensing). We habitually act for large domestic and international luxury brand and fashion groups in protecting their designs and distinctive marks and we provide advice and legal assistance to foundations and world-renowned artists of different disciplines with regard to protecting their copyright in Italy and abroad.
We have several decades of extensive experience in judicial and extrajudicial handling of matters related to industrial, intellectual, and information technology property law.
Within the macro-area of IP/IT, the department provides specific services on the following matters:
- Patents
- Trade marks and other distinctive marks
- Supplementary protection certificates
- Copyright
- Design
- Geographical indications
- Trade secrets, know-how and confidential information
- Unfair competition
- Advertising and labelling
- Telecommunications, Media and Information Technology
- E-commerce
- Franchising and licensing agreements.
Our activities encompass:
- All types of Italian and foreign litigation dispute resolution
- The development of strategies to protect patents, marks and design (whether national or transnational), in close collaboration with the client and the client’s consultants
- Support in joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions in highly technological sectors and sectors with a high level of IP rights
- Negotiation and drafting of all types of contracts concerning industrial, intellectual and IT property, including licence and technology transfer agreements.
Since the department was set up we have been by our clients’ side in all the latest and most controversial developments in their respective sectors, even in high stakes “bet-the-company” suits. We have developed specific expertise in the transnational IP litigation sector and examined in-depth the interaction between IPR and antitrust. The team is particularly versed and has extensive experience in Life Sciences patent litigation and litigation in the electrononics and IT sectors (e.g., FRAND and software licensing). We habitually act for large domestic and international luxury brand and fashion groups in protecting their designs and distinctive marks and we provide advice and legal assistance to foundations and world-renowned artists of different disciplines with regard to protecting their copyright in Italy and abroad.
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NEWS AND EVENTS
Russia: EU sanctions 14th package – news on the protection of intellectual property rights Milan, August 6, 2024 – On 24 June 2024, the Council of the European Union adopted the 14th sanction package which introduced amendments, inter alia, to EU Council Regulation no. 833/2014, more precisely by introducing the new art. 5s, concerning the registration of intellectual property rights. These amendments prohibit intellectual property offices and other institutions competent under the law of a Member State or the EU to accept new applications for registration of trade marks, patents, utility models, designs and models, protected designations of origin and…
Pavia e Ansaldo increases its international reach Sveva Antonini joins the Japan Desk Milan, 20 March, 2023 – The international law firm Pavia e Ansaldo announces the arrival of the lawyer Sveva Antonini as Of Counsel. Ms Antonini will strengthen the Japan desk, led by country Partner Adriano Villa, and will join the Industrial and Intellectual Property department, working in the Milan and Tokyo offices. The firm continues with its strategy of expanding its foreign desks and enriching its range of skills in the intellectual property department with the addition of a professional with extensive international experience. …
Greenwashing – Scrutinising Eco-friendly Imagery, Labels & Claims WEBINAR October 13, 2022 IST: 6.30 – 7.30 pm – GMT: 1.00 – 2.00 pm – EST: 9.00 – 10.00 pm Radha Khera, Managing Associate, Remfry & Sagar vill lead a panel discussion on ‘green’ branding and marketing claims in the backdrop of conscious consumerism PANELIST Cyril Abrol, Partner Remfry & Sagar Joan Davis, Of Counsel Schroder Brooks Law Firm PLC Gabriele Girardello, Partner – IP/Litigation Pavia e Ansaldo Studio Legale Maria Rosaria Raspanti, Senior Associate – Antitrust & Competition, Pavia e Ansaldo Studio Legale DOWNLOAD
Russia: Temporary regime for the fulfilment of obligations towards specific holders of intellectual property rights At the end of May 2022, the new Presidential Decree no. 322 on the temporary procedure for the fulfilment of obligations towards certain intellectual property owners was adopted. The temporary procedure was introduced for the fulfilment of the pecuniary obligations arising from the use of the intellectual property rights and (or) other signs of identification, whose owners are: foreign persons from hostile countries (including their Russian subsidiaries); persons who publicly supported the foreign sanctions introduced against the Russian Federation; persons who, after February 23,…
New appointments in Pavia e Ansaldo: Gabriele Girardello and Roberto Oliva promoted as partners Milan, 7 April, 2022 – The Law firm Pavia e Ansaldo announces the promotion of the Counsels Gabriele Girardello and Roberto Oliva as Partners. Both the lawyers operate in the Milan office of the Firm. Gabriele Girardello carries out his activity in the context of the Departments of Industrial and Intellectual Property Law and Healthcare and Pharmaceutical. He has a consolidated litigation and extrajudicial experience, assisting domestic and international clients, in particular in the Life Sciences, manufacturing, Information Technology and fashion sectors. He…
Contratto di edizione, cessione, diritto al compenso dell’autore e responsabilità extracontrattuale dell’editore Milano, 28 aprile 2020 – Pavia e Ansaldo, con gli Avv. Gian Paolo Di Santo (partner) e Arianna Paternicò (counsel), ha assistito due celebri Professori universitari di letteratura italiana, critici e studiosi di fama internazionale, in una ultradecennale, complessa e articolata vicenda giudiziaria in materia di violazione del diritto d’autore su una monumentale opera di storia della letteratura italiana dagli stessi ideata e realizzata. La vicenda ha avuto inizio nel 2004 e si è articolata in cinque fasi processuali: il primo grado di giudizio avanti il Tribunale di…
I diritti spettanti in Italia agli autori o costitutori di banche di dati Recentemente, a causa del proliferare di startup innovative e in generale di imprese che realizzano prodotti (normalmente applicazioni) o servizi digitali stanno riacquisendo notevole rilevanza nel nostro ordinamento le tematiche connesse alle banche di dati. Infatti la gran parte se non la totalità dei prodotti o servizi digitali poggiano e si basano per la propria operatività su ampi insiemi di dati sotto forma di archivi o repositories. Nel gioco concorrenziale può quindi verificarsi di sovente il caso dell’appropriazione da parte di terzi di parti o talvolta addirittura…
Germany says ‘halt’ to unitary patent and UPC. National sovereignty over patents, first. Milan, 24 March 2020 – The German Constitutional Court has declared that the act of ratification of the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) by the German Parliament is null and void. This certainly represent a major drawback if not even a lethal blow for the whole system of a European Patent having unitary effect. The German Court has affirmed that the UPC system somehow would have amended the German Constitution in substantive terms, therefore its implementation should have been approved by the Bundestag with a…
Pavia e Ansaldo, the “MI-RO Four Tech Days, New Challenges in a Changing World” have started From 26 to 29 November 2019 four days of events organized with the support of Assoimmobiliare, The Thinking Watermill Society and the World Legal Summit to discuss about technological innovation, challenges and opportunities for the world of business and of the legal professions Milan, 26 november 2019 – Today the opening event of the “MI-RO Four Tech Days: New Challenges in a Changing World”, took place; the first of a series of events scheduled in Milan and Rome, from 26 to 29 november 2019,…
Technology innovation: challenges and opportunities for business sectors and legal profession 26 Novembre 2019 Pavia e Ansaldo Studio Legale Via Del Lauro, 7 – Milano
TRASFERIMENTO TECNOLOGICO E SUOI ESITI ECONOMICI E SOCIALI Proprietà industriale e intellettuale – l’Avvocato Gian Paolo Di Santo sarà relatore al Seminario “Trasferimento Tecnologico e suoi esiti economici e sociali” che si terrà venerdì 9 novembre 2018, dalle ore 10:00 alle ore 17:30, presso l’Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra. La sua relazione avrà ad oggetto “Il problema del know how nel Trasferimento Tecnologico”. Il convegno è accreditato dall’Ordine dei Consulenti in Proprietà Industriale.
WORLD LEGAL SUMMIT 2019 – ROMA – PART 2 PROGRAMMA: World Legal Summit 2019 – Part 2 Per iscrizioni: https://www.mygovernance.it/world-legal-summit-2019/ Speakers Grazia Maria Gentile, Consigliere dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma Giovanni Vaia, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Mario Di Giulio, Pavia e Ansaldo Roger Cataldi, AlmavivA Lorenzo Maria D., My Governance Giuseppina D’Auria, Studio di Gravio Roberto Setola, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma Raniero Romagnoli, Almawave Francesco Salvi, Pavia e Ansaldo E’ stata fatta proposta dal Centro Studi all’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma per 2 crediti formativi ordinari e 1 credito deontologico.
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INTERVIEW WITH GIAN PAOLO DI SANTO – ANNUAL REVIEW: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION 2016 Gian Paolo Di Santo has been interviewed by the Financier Worldwide with reference to IP litigation matters. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested to receive the full article. http://www.financierworldwide.com/annual-review-intellectual-property-litigation-2016
Pavia e Ansaldo renews the offices of managing partner and senior partner and adopts new governance Milan, 14 July 2015 – The Partners’ Meeting of Pavia e Ansaldo, held to renew management positions, appointed Stefano Bianchi to the office of Managing Partner and confirmed Gian Paolo Di Santo in the office of Senior Partner. The meeting also approved a new governance model aimed at a greater participation and full utilization of its resources. Stefano Bianchi has been in Pavia e Ansaldo for 25 years and is a partner since 2000. He represents industrial groups, Italian and foreign investment funds and has…
