The Court of Cassation, with judgement no. 8433 of April 30th 2020, confirmed once again that a project of interior design can benefit from the protection provided by art. 5 n. 2 of the Italian Copyright Law. The interior design of a store can be protected if it contains: “ a unified project, a pattern […]
The Court of Cassation, by judgment no. 11959/2020, ruled on the qualification of computer files as movable property, modifying the previous orientation to the contrary. The decision derives from the case of a company’s former employee, hired by another company operating in the same field, who was asked to return the company’s laptop. At the […]
On May 27th 2020, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the leading authority on protection of industrial and intellectual property, presented WIPO PROOF, a new online service that provides a tamper-proof evidence of the existence of a digital file at a precise point in time. By uploading the file on the website https://wipoproof.wipo.int/ and paying […]
The Immuni App is available for download in the Apple and Google App Stores. The app was preceded, even before the expectations on its possible effectiveness to fight the pandemic, by the doubts on its possible violation of privacy. Doubts that must have been now resolved, at least in theory, given that the Italian Data […]
To help businesses, yesterday the Italian Patent and Trademark Office issued a decree according to which all time...
