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…

Marina Lanfranconi Following the recent decision of the General Court (EU) of 8 February 2019, Chiara Ferragni has obtained confirmation as to the valid registration of the figurative trademark Chiara Ferragni with stylized eye throughout the EU in relation to clothing and accessories.     The dispute arose in 2015 when a…