01INVENTION PATENTS AND UTILITY MODELS AREA

Patent searches in Italy and worldwide.
Preparation and filing of patents in Italy and worldwide.
Administrative oppositions against the granting of third-party patents.
Monitoring of deadlines and forwarding of related notices.
Assistance with technology, patent licensing and rights transfer contracts.
Contract documentation relating to inventions, tenders, works contracts, confidentiality agreements and subcontracting.
Filing of Italian, international, Community and foreign Registered Designs.
Pro-veritate opinions on interference between patent rights. The same are performed by professionals who regularly work as Court-Appointed Expert Witnesses for the most important Courts.
Search of patents of the main competitors, legal assistance in judicial or extrajudicial disputes
Financial assessment of patents.
Due Diligence.
Patent filing for Italian, Community and foreign new plant varieties.
Filing of topographies of semiconductor products.

02TRADEMARK AREA

Searches for trademarks filed in Italy and worldwide, carried out from the time of conception of a new product.
Opinions on interference with prior distinctive marks.
Filing of collective trademarks in Italy and worldwide.
Filing and assistance in filing and registrability of trademarks worldwide.
Assistance during the examination of the registration requirements of a trademark in Italy and abroad.
Administrative oppositions against the granting of third-party trademarks.
Monitoring of deadlines and forwarding of the related notices.
Assistance with contracts for trademark use, trademark licensing or franchising.
Assignment and transfers of trademark rights. Pro-veritate opinions on interference between trademark rights.
Search of trademarks of the main competitors.
Legal assistance in judicial or extrajudicial disputes or before the Giurì della lealtà pubblicitaria (Italian Advertising Integrity Jury).
Financial trademark assessment.
Registrations and annotations of deeds in Italy and abroad which modify the ownership of the trademark.
Due Diligence.

03INTERNET AND SOFTWARE AREA

Legal and extrajudicial assistance in disputes regarding trademarks and Domain Names.
Domain name reassignment procedures.
Searches for trademarks being used on the Internet.
We do not supply provider or maintainer services.
Software development contracts.
Software protection.
Legal and operational assistance for the transfer of domain names.

04FINANCIAL AREA

Financial assessment of trademarks, patents and designs.
Due Diligence.
Assistance with company transactions involving Industrial Property Rights.
Calculation of just and fair rewards for inventions of employees.
Patent Box procedure.

05CUSTOMS SERVICES AREA

Preparation of the forms and documentation for the filing of customs intervention proceedings on the Italian national and Community level.
Organization and assistance in the event of customs seizures.
National contacts for Community intervention proceedings filed by our clients or foreign correspondents.

06COPYRIGHT AREA

Filing of engineering or other works.
Transfer and assignment of Copyright. Filing of unpublished work with the SIAE (Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori, Italian Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers).
Searches at the U.S. Copyright Office.
Works development contracts.
Contracts for use of original work.
Industrial Design works and their protection abroad by means of Copyright.