Elisabetta Mina The European Court of Justice is hearing for the first time on the criteria of allocation of jurisdiction in cases of infringement of copyright through the Internet , according to art. 5, paragraph 3 of the EC Regulation 44/2001. The Court has had occasion to consider the problems…

Mauro Santo  The recent decision of the Tribunal of Milan - section specialised in imprenditorial matter (n.11010/2014 published on the 27th of September 2014), once again addressed the lookalike issue, a competitor’s mimicking of the features of a product’s packaging. San Carlo Gruppo Alimentare S.p.A. notorious producer of crisps, had…

Mauro Santo  Little more than 6 months ago the AGCOM Regulation for the protection of Internet copyright came into force (Regulation on the protection of Internet copyright on electronic communication networks and procedures implementing the provisions of the legislative decree of 9 April 2003 n. 70’ - resolution 680/13/Cons). The…

Elisabetta Mina On the 8th of July 2014, the Italian Advertising commission issued its first decision regarding ambush marketing. The case in question was Lay’s PepsiCo advertising campaign, starring Fabio Cannavaro and Lionel Messi, which was not finally considered to be ambush marketing. The expression ‘ambush marketing’ was first used…