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 [...]

Since November 2022, the Libyan Trademark Office had stopped processing the files and accepting new applications of foreign Applicants, limiting itself to managing cases in which the Applicant was Libyan. Since 28 May 2023 it has resumed accepting new applications and processing cases that were already pending with a foreign applicant.