Intellectual property

Intangible assets (and among them, intellectual property rights) often outrank the significance of the physical ones in a corporation’s performance. Lawsuits increasingly deal with issues relating to such assets and rights. This section intends to high lighten some of the significant cases.

IP protection for a scooter design model.

Italian IP Court decides in defense of the design model of the Vespa scooter.


The Vespa brand - created in the 40ies and still around today, with models’ styling obviously adapted to technological development and varying tren...

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How far extends protection granted under IP laws?

The tricky issue of when a ‘work’ is eligible for copyright protection


IP rights cover ‘productions in the literary, scientific and artistic domain’. However, copyright protects ‘expressions’ and not ‘ideas’. Hence, th...

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IP dispute over pet accssories.

Can a unique and luxurious style imply ‘distinctiveness’?


An Italian First Instance Court in Milan (Corporate and IP Section) hands down an interesting decision to solve a dispute arisen between manufactur...

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