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“Made in Italy”

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Italy
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  • July 21 2010

The topic of foodstuff tracking through the label "Made in Italy" is a very sensitive issue in Italian legislation, case law and public opinion

The search for accomplice liability in Italy goes on

  • Bugnion SpA
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  • Italy
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  • December 22 2010

Calling for a unified stance on keywords advertising and trademarks, not only from Italian judges but courts worldwide, in order to give brand owners clarity

Power to the people

  • Bugnion SpA
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  • Italy
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  • September 1 2010

The relationship between image protection and trademarks is defined by the few articles in the Industrial Property Code that deal specifically with images and personal names in relation to trademarks

Still a marginal reality?

  • Bugnion SpA
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  • Italy
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  • October 29 2010

In Italy, the Civil Code and the Industrial Property Code ensure protection for unregistered marks, as well as other unregistered commercial signs (eg, insignia, business names and company domain names), but such protection is subject to strict conditions and a number of restrictions

No generic character of Bayer's trademark "Aspirina"; infringement by sale of homeopathic pills under the name "HerbAsprina"

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Italy
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  • January 20 2011

Bayer AG and its Italian subsidiary Bayer S.p.A. claimed infringement of Bayer's trademarks containing the well-known name "Aspirina" by Elaborados Dieteticos S.A. (ED), a Spanish pharmaceutical company specializing in homeopathic products, who manufactured and sold in Italy homeopathic pills under the name "Herbasprina" for which it had registered in 1998 the Italian trademark "HerbAsprina" (No 845.511) for classes 5 and 30

CMS brands review

  • CMS
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  • Belgium, European Union, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom
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  • November 12 2010

It has been well over a decade since the Trade Marks Directive came into force, approximating the law on trade marks across Europe

UIBM slowly but surely improves registration procedures

  • Bugnion SpA
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  • Italy
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  • February 28 2011

The Italian Patent and Trademark Office is continuing efforts to increase efficiency but there is still work to be done

The law applicable to comparative advertising in Italy

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Italy
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  • June 27 2011

There are three main sets of rules applicable to comparative advertising in Italy

Trade mark opposition in Italy

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Italy
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  • June 30 2011

As of 1 July 2011, it will be possible to file oppositions against Italian trade mark applications filed from 1 May 2011, and against Italian designations of international trade marks, regardless of their filing date, which could be earlier than 1 May, published in the Gazette of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 1 July 2011

Fashion designer allowed to prevent use of name despite selling all rights

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, Italy
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  • September 28 2011

Ruling on the proper interpretation of national legal provisions in invalidity proceedings (Edwin Co Ltd v Elio Fiorucci C- 26309), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has held that the holder of a name is entitled to prevent its use as a Community trade mark (CTM) where national law permits