Lawful uses of others’ trademarks: the Zara case

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), on January 11th 2024 decided upon the interpretation of a rule relating to the use of trademarks of third parties as part of a case pitting the Spanish company owner of the “ZARA” trademark against an information service provider who launched an advertising campaign where the […]

Trump claims a domain name

Wipo – World Intellectual Property Organization – with decision of November 24th 2023, Case D2023-4147 rejected the request to transfer a domain name filed by DTTM Operations LLC, which manages the trademarks of The Trump Organization group, linked to the former president of the United States Donald J. Trump. The disputed domain name The domain name […]

Italian initiatives on AI: from the Legislative Decree on transparency measures to the Camera’s Call for ideas

While in Europe the approval process of the AI ACT has almost come to an end, in Italy the attention toward the potentials of Artificial Intelligence continues to grow. At national level, on the one hand the Italian legislator has begun to worry about the risks connected to the use of AI systems in the […]

Cookie Pledge: a new cookie consent management

On December 13, 2023, the EDPB – European Data Protection Board – published a letter of response to a voluntary initiative – cookie pledge –  of the European Commission, through which it was proposed a system allowing enterprises to intervene and manage cookie directly, as to lighten the mechanism to ask for users consent for […]