Giacomo Lusardi Important clarification has been provided by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in relation to the processing of the personal data of Facebook users. It has ruled that a Facebook page administrator is, together with Facebook, the “controller” of the personal data of users who…

Ilaria Gargiulo If a three-dimensional trademark consists of the shape of the product for which registration is sought, the existence of a variant which is innovative with respect to the usual shapes of that product is not, in itself, sufficient for the purposes of establishing that the trademark possesses the…

Mariangela Liuzzi The Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM) [The Italian Communications Authority], by way of implementing Legislative Decree 7 December 2017 no. 204 concerning the reform of legislation on the promotion of European and Italian works by audio-visual media service [AVMS] providers (“Franceschini Law”) has, by means of Resolution 184/18/CONS published on…

Simona Franco By its decisions T-207/17 and T-208/17 the General Court (EU) dismissed an action brought by the Polish company Senetic which, in 2015, had filed an application for a declaration of invalidity with regard to the HP EU word trademark and the HP EU figurative trademark (shown hereunder), both…