Will Jean Paul Gaultier compensate Uffizi Museum for exploiting Botticelli’s Birth of Venus?
Vincenzo Iaia The 2022 spring summer collection by Jean Paul Gaultier included a garment reproducing the famous painting The Birth of Venus as a “tribute” to the Italian maestro Sandro Botticelli. However, the Uffizi Museum, as caretaker of the work, was not impressed. Indeed, upon learning about the tribute, the Florentine museum sent a warning […]
Italy’s Competition Authority clarifies that the use of the “NutriScore” rating on food packaging is an unfair commercial practice.
Maria Beatrice Bernadette Arnese The NutriScore rating is a front-of-pack label that provides information on the nutritional qualities of foods using five different colours and letters to rate food products into five categories: from category A (dark green), indicating a higher nutritional quality, to category E (dark orange), indicating a lower nutritional quality. On July […]
The Court of Milan rules on the liability of the parent company and on the admissibility of INDICAM’s participation in the proceedings
Edorado Cesarini The Specialised Business Section of the Court of Milan, in a recent judgment, ruled on the parent company’s liability for damages and on the restitution of profits made by its subsidiaries as well as on the admissibility of the participation in the proceedings of INDICAM (an Italian association for the fight against counterfeiting) […]
The Court of Paris’ judgement on search engine positioning, trademarks and counterfeiting
On June 10, 2022, the Court of Paris judged the reproduction of the registered trademark ‘Carré Blanc’ in the header and the URL address of web pages accessible through the Amazon.fr domain name as an act of counterfeiting as it was liable to mislead users with respect to the availability – on those web pages […]
Inditex loses the trademark battle over “Pasta Zara” also at national level
Vincenzo Iaia With judgement no. 155 of January 25th, 2022, the Court of Genoa rejected the claim filed by the Spanish fashion company Inditex S.A. (hereinafter “Inditex”) against the Italian pasta manufacturer Ffauf S.A. (hereinafter “Ffauf”) concerning the scope of protection of the trademark “Zara”. The litigation concerns the coexistence of the mark “Zara” and […]
A “Phantom” infringement of the “Skeleton” frames: The Court of Milan “ghosts” the exclusive rights of a Registered Community Design on eyewear frames
Vincenzo Iaia, Andrea Klein With the decision no. 248/202l the Milan Court of first instance ruled on a Registered Community Design infringement case between two eyeglass frames whose names also reminds us of the underworld. In particular, an eyewear company producing the “Skeleton” design (already registered at the EUIPO) sued a competitor for design infringement […]
Le grandi aziende si rifanno il look – I più grandi rebranding del 2021
26.10.2021
Si sceglie di rinnovare il marchio per molti motivi: una maggiore percezione dei valori da parte del pubblico, un cambiamento dello stile comunicativo più adatto alla contemporaneità, la voglia di dimostrarsi sempre innovativi e in crescita. Ecco di seguito alcuni dei più importanti rebranding che abbiamo visto nell’anno passato.
Blockchain – Copyright today is a digital asset
08.10.2021
The Italian SIAE is the sixth largest copyright management company in the world, and has recently concluded an alliance with Algorand. By taking advantage of Algorand’s blockchain infrastructure, SIAE is able to convey and manage copyright in the form of digital assets.
First yes from the EU Commission to Croatia’s Prosek
For the first time, the European Commission has granted admissibility to Croatian Prosek: Zagreb’s application to obtain the recognition of the traditional term “Prosek” for wine. According to the Commission, the application seems to be in compliance with the requirements of validity and, therefore, decided to proceed with its publication in the Official Journal. Italy […]
