Category Archives: Patents & Inventions

D-Nest IIE 16 Official Program

The program of “D-nest International Inventors Exhibition 2016” October 13 11:00 am – Sala Leonardo – Opening Ceremony with presentation of D-nest Project(Gramola/Cristani) 12:30 am – Inaugural aperitif 2:30 pm – Sala Galileo – “Tutelare un’idea” (Studio Porto4 – Giovanni Brancalion, lawyer) 3:00/5:00 pm – Sala Leonardo – Wearable Tecnologies (Venice Design Week) 4:30 pm – Sala Galileo – EU […]

The object of the patent is identified by the claims

With the sentence n. 10335 of May 19 th 2016, the Supreme Court ruled in relation to the importance of the claims to define the object of the patent. The case examined by the Supreme Court saw as opposing parties two companies (X and Y) regarding the validity of the Italian patent and the Italian […]

How to protect cooking recipes

A cooking recipe is substantially made up of a list of ingredients and of a method that teaches how to unite them together, therefore, in brief, it is a procedure that allows to obtain a product. This procedure, and/or the product obtained, can be patented on condition that it is new and inventive and that […]

Essential patents: first to sue should notify

The Court of Justice (Judgment. 16.07.2015 in Case C-170/13) has recently dealt with the so-called “essential patents” relating to particular telecommunications companies. It is constant rule that these companies have the need to use some standards without which it would be impossible to make a working phone. These standards are covered by patents not only […]