Media, Telecommunication and IT
We are qualified to provide advice on a broad range of legal areas to the media industry, including new media, telecommunication and IT companies.
Industrial Design
We have extensive experience in providing legal assistance to companies and/or individuals operating in the development and/or manufacturing of both high-end and mass consumer designer goods.
Brands and Luxury Brands
We can provide assistance in all cases where clients need to protect a brand or a company’s distinctive sign or to build a legal framework around it. We have expertise in both contentious and non-contentious brand protection, further than in drafting and negotiating agreements for the exploitation of brands.
Technology
We counsel companies and/or bodies (including university research departments and spin-offs) dedicated to implementating new technologies and/or needing to protect proprietary technologies or know-how against infringement or misappropriation.
Life Sciences
We have substantial experience in assisting companies in the pharmaceutical and medical devices fields, both in patent infringement cases and trademark infringement cases (including in parallel imports cases) and in the drafting and negotiating of research agreements and clinical trial agreements.
Food
We provide assistance and advice to operators in the food and food farming fields, with particular focus on legal issues regarding designation of origin and new plant varieties.
Art, Music, Photography, Theatre, Dance, Entertainment
We have extensive experience in dealing with legal issues arising in all fields in which the creative and artistic component is essential. We provide legal assistance in this area to companies, authors and other right-holders who need to protect their copyright or related rights on (musical, pictorial, photographical, theatrical, choreutic etc.) works, in court or out of court, and may also assist in dealing with collecting societies.
Publishing
We advise and assist a number of companies active in the publishing field, including both traditional paper publishing and digital publishing, and offer specialised legal services in relation to the development and acquisition of contents, their publication and/or diffusion and their protection.
Textiles and Fashion
We advise and assist companies active in the textiles and fashion field, both through the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements, and through legal proceedings against counterfeiting.
Automotive
We are experienced in providing advice on patent, design and trademark issues (including parallel import) to car maufacturers and maufacturers of components or devices for vehicles. We have also acquired specific expertise in proceedings regarding spare parts issues.