Feb 6, 2018 | News, Patents
On 29 June 2017 the Administrative Council of the European Patent Office has amended Rules 27 and 28 of the Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention on the patentability of biotechnology inventions, excluding plants and animals exclusively obtained...
Feb 6, 2018 | Copyright, News
On September 7, 2017 the EU Advocate General filed his conclusions in the dispute between VCAST Limited (UK undertaking) and R.T.I. s.p.a. (Case C-265/16).The question referred to the CJEU upon the stay of the proceedings by the Turin Court is about whether or not...
Feb 6, 2018 | Appellations of origin and geographical indications, Distinctive Signs, News
By decision n. 21191 of 13 September 2017, the joint sections of the divisions of the Supreme Court has recognized the competence of the National Ordinary Court for the action taken by Azienda Agricola Salaparuta s.p.a. based on its registered trademark...
Feb 6, 2018 | Competition and antitrust law, Distinctive Signs, News
On December 6, 2017, the European Court of Justice handed down its ruling in the Coty case in Germany.The judgement clarifies the important subject of selective distribution contracts. The Court of Justice has infact confirmed that a contractual clause that prohibits...
Feb 6, 2018 | Copyright, News
On 29 November 2017 the Court of Justice handed down its ruling in the proceedings VCAST Limited v. R.T.I. s.p.a. (Case C-265/16).On 7 September 2017the EU Advocate General stated in its opinion that ‘cloud computing’ relates to the access, through a...
Feb 6, 2018 | News, Patents
On 19 January 2018 it was published the decision of the Bologna Court of Appeal in a case relating to a patent having as subject matter ‘a particular kind of plastic packaging for glasses, sealing the glass directly to the neck of a bottle, allowing to fit the...
