Intellectual Property

The Firm’s Intellectual Property department provides counsel and legal assistance to Italian and international clients in relation to judicial protection of intellectual and industrial property rights, such as the securing and enforcing of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and other valuable intangible assets, before competent national and international Authorities.

Our professionals are particularly expert in providing advice on intellectual and industrial property protection in the media and information technology industry. In particular, they provide clients with assistance on:

 - draft of software development agreement;

-protection of patent for an invention or utility model;

- copyright and patent protection  on software; 

- protection of computer programs and electronic database;

- advice on trade secrets and patet protection;

- the administrative procedures at the S.I.A.E. (the copyright office for the registration of software in the Public Software Registry);

- administrative and judicial proceedings for disputes over the illegal use of intellectual property;

Firm news

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13/07/2026

Google Android: the Court of Justice upholds Google’s fine of around €4.1 billion

Judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU in Case C-738/22 P | Google and Alphabet v Commission   The appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the judgment of the General

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13/07/2026

Judgment of the General Court in Joined Cases T-1079/23, T-1080/23 | Apple v Commission and T-214/24 Apple and Apple Distribution International v Commission

Digital services: the General Court of the EU dismisses Apple’s actions regarding its designation as a gatekeeper in relation to the App Store and iOS The General Court also rules that

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13/07/2026

Opinion of the Advocate General in Cases C-535/25 | Amazon Italia Logistica, C-536/25 | Amazon Italia Services and C-537/25 | Amazon Italia Transport

According to Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona of the Court of Justice of the European Union, companies in the Amazon group provide postal services in Italy Consequently, the requirement