Under the current Rule 126(2) EPC, relating to notification by postal services, Communications sent by the EPO are deemed to have been delivered on the tenth day following the date printed on the Communication ("Ten-Day Rule"), effectively postponing by ten days any time limit calculated from the date printed on the document. Due to the instantaneous notifications in the digital [...]

The advent of the electric car also has effects on corporate brands. In recent months, Porsche has tried to record the hiss generated by its electric model when accelerating. However, the EUIPO rejected it for lack of distinctiveness, i.e. of particular sound elements worthy of being memorable. In a few years we will see whether this sound may have acquired [...]

The draft law amending the Industrial Property Code has been definitively approved. The reform pursues the strengthening of the competitiveness of the country's economic system, the protection of industrial property and the administrative simplification and digitalisation of procedures. The measure, among the novelties introduced, provides: with the new text of Article 65, that also in Italy, as in the rest [...]

With Decree dated 04.11.2023, the Minister of Culture intervened on the subject by publishing the "Guidelines for the determination of the minimum amounts of fees and considerations for the concession of use of the goods held by state cultural institutions and places”. The Guidelines concern both non-profit reproductions and those for commercial purposes, also providing for tables for calculating the [...]