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Trade secrets

Mar 16, 2025 | News

After our last article in which our Francesca La Rocca Sena expressed her views, on ItaliaOggi we return once again to the subject of trade secrets and the theft of confidential information, a growing phenomenon driven by digitalisation, as our Elisabetta Berti...

No to copyright protection for the shape of Birkenstock sandals

Mar 13, 2025 | Copyright, News

With the sentence I ZR 16/24, published on the 25th of February 2025, the German Federal Court rejected Birkenstock’s appeal excluding copyright protection for the shape of some well-known sandal models. The German copyright law, the Urheberrechtsgesetz of...

Managers and mothers: a possible balance

Feb 28, 2025 | News

Our new mother Francesca La Rocca shares her experience in this article for Dol’s Magazine, by Caterina Della Torre, on the balance between career and parenthood: even today there are still many challenges, but thanks to technology, collaborative working...

Food&Wine and Art: economic synergies and legal implications

Feb 18, 2025 | Copyright, News

On Thursday 20th Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi Veli will contribute to ‘Food&Wine and Art: economic synergies and legal implications’, the meeting, organised by Maria Katharina Rauchenberger, Legal & Compliance Director of Ruffino 1877 and AIGI –...

The German Case Birkestok

The recent Birkenstock case presented to the German Federal Court of Justice raises a crucial question: can the design of an iconic fashion product be protected as a work of art? Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi and Francesca La Rocca Sena discuss it in this Tech Art Shoes...

Design protection

About imitation and what makes iconic a shape for copyright: we discussed the very recent Birkenstock case with Il Sole 24 ore. Here is the article by Elisabetta Berti Arnoaldi and Francesca La Rocca Sena:...