Francesca Gioia With its decision of 25 March last, the Court of First Instance of Rome found for Geox in a dispute concerning trademarks, unfair competition and protection of the unregistered design “D Energy Walk” against defendants Euro Scarpe Hang Xinhia and Joy Fashion s.r.l., respectively producer and retailer of a shoe which is…

Giacomo Lusardi The new text of the draft EU Digital Single Market Copyright Directive (the “Copyright Directive”), on which the EU Commission, Parliament and Council reached agreement last February, contains a number of interesting changesin matters of text and data mining, also with regard to questions raised in a previous article…

Simona Franco Following its organization of the exhibition “The Art of Banksy. A Visual Protest” 24 Ore Cultura was summonsed before the Court of First Instance of Milan by Pest Control Office. The latter – a UK company - is the owner of the name trademark “BANKSY” and the figurative…

Giacomo Lusardi In 1600 François de La Rochefoucauld wrote that true love is like ghosts which everyone speaks of but few have seen. With a little poetic licence we could say the same today about the blockchain: everyone speaks of it but few really understand it. Not a day goes…