Ilaria Gargiulo On November 25, 2016, the Institute of Advertising Self-Regulation (IAP) passed judgment on the theme of protection regarding advertising ideas in a case between the “little devils of the sore throat” by NeoBorocillina (Alfa Wasserman S.p.a.) and Benactivdol Gola (Reckitt Benckister Italia S.p.a.) and the TV commercials in…

Elisabetta Mina On December 8, 2016, Attorney General Manuel Campos Sanchez-Bordona released his conclusions on judgment C-527/15 (Stichting Brein v Jack Frederik Wullems) supported by the Rechtbank Midden-Nederland (Dutch District Court) before the European Court of Justice. The origins of the dispute can be traced to a previous case between…

Marina Lanfranconi The Court of Justice seems to have arrived at a landing point in the dispute concerning the shape mark of the famous Rubik’s Cube. With the sentence C-30/15 of November 10, 2016, the Court welcomed the complaint presented by Simba Toys regarding the registrability of the shape mark…

Gilberto Cavagna The Supreme Court has been called upon to decide over a case regarding employee inventions (sentence n. 20239 of Civil Section 1, published on October 7, 2016). The underlying dispute of the claim involved recognition of fair prize requested by an employee in relation to several industrial inventions…