Legal
Civil Mediation
Italian Law n. 98 of 9 August 2013, converting Law Decree n. 69 of 21 June 2013 (so-called "Decree of doing"), restored the mandatory civil mediation in Italy...
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Publication of the legislative Decree No. 131 dated August 13th, 2010 concerning the amendments to the Italian Industrial Property Code
The legislative Decree No. 131 dated August 13th, 2010 concerning the amendments to the Italian Industrial Property Code was published...
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The regulation relating to the implementation of the Code of Industrial Property has entered into force
On 10 March 2010 the regulation relating to the implementation of the Code of Industrial Property entered into force...
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DOMAIN NAME – Under the new Italian “Development Law” the registration of a domain name has become quite risky: here’s the reason
One of the effects originated by the modification of Article 473 of the Criminal Code on counterfeiting, according to some commentators...
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Amendments to the Italian Code of Industrial Property
It has been published on the official journal No. 176 of 31.07.2009 the law No. 99/2009, which has modified also the Italian Code of Industrial Property...
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ITALY - DEVELOPMENT BILL: criminal law innovations related to intellectual property
With the final endorsement of July 9, 2009, Senate has given the go-ahead to a bill aimed to sustain development...
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2008 EU Customs Statistics
The number of goods suspected of infringing IP rights seized in 2008 increased by 126%, from 79 million articles in 2007 to 178 million in 2008.....
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UK - A new way to administer the intellectual property regime in respect of Trademark and Copyright infringing goods
Since the 22nd of June 2009 changed the way goods suspected of infringing Intellectual Property are to be dealt at the frontier. H&M Revenue and Custom, in compliance with Article 13 of Council Regulation 1383/2003,...
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AntiCounterfeiting Ad Campaign in New York City
The President of the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition announced the launch of a Global Public Service Ad Campaign....
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Some headlines of the statistics from US Customs and Border Protection
The domestic value of goods seized for intellectual property rights violations in 2008 increased by 38.6% to $272.7million from $196.7 million in 2007....
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Music copyright to be extended to 95 years
The EU’s Legal Affairs Committee has approved a legislation that says that Bottom of Form Copyright term for music recordings must be extended from 50 years to 95 years....
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Swiss Watch Industry Launches Anti-Fake Campaign
The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry and The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie have launched an international ad campaign....
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IP rights in Italy; Reintroduction of the ordinary procedure.
Legal proceedings concerning Industrial Property, unfair competition and antitrust infringements in relation to the exercise of industrial property rights once again to be governed by the standard ordinary procedure.
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