You need to pay attention when representing of famous artworks in commercial communication and in distinctive signs: in fact, a recent ruling by the Court of Florence clarifies that the image of a artwork for [...]

With a high likelihood, between end-2022 and start-2023, the Unified Patent Court Agreement (hereinafter, for short, "UPCA") will enter into force and, along with it, the European patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent [...]

A recent provision requires the sworn translation into Arabic of words not in Arabic forming a mark to be registered (including those marks formed by a mix of non-Arabic words). If so, it is advisable [...]

On 13 April 2022, a special law entered into force providing for: suspension of deadlines starting on 24 February 2022: deadlines will continue starting from the day following the date on which the martial law [...]

Ukraine: martial law suspended the deadlines for 30 days; online filings work as long as there is an internet line; the Ukrainian colleagues work from home, always using the Internet and until it works. Russia [...]

The virtual world makes its way with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT),, i.e. digital objects, which are a sort of "avatar" of physical objects and which begin to have their own specific market on the Internet. As [...]

China has joined the Hague System bringing the total number of countries covered to 94. The Government of China deposited its instrument of accession to the 1999 Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement on February [...]

In Turkey, to register a DN, the proof of ownership of the name object of the Dn is no longer required, and, from now on, the "first come, first served" principle will be adopted. This [...]

The Italian Agriculture Ministery  filed an objection to the EU Commission in early November against Croatia's request to register PROSEK as a traditional term for wine. The Opposition is based on the Italian PDOs for [...]

As of December 28, 2021 the Madrid Protocol on International marks will welcome the accession of UAE.