Category Archives: Patents & Inventions

Samsung Vs. Apple and how to quantify the damages

The 6th December 2016 the Federal Court of the US issued a new important decision concerning the Apple-Samsung Saga. In 2012, Apple won a lawsuit against Samsung for the violation of a number of utility models patents and of designs in addition to the competitive damage by “dilution” caused by Samsung for the imitation of […]

The judgment on the validity of the patent prevails on the judgment of the infringement thereof

The Court of Appeal, with decision no. 15339 of 25 July 2016, has expressed its opinion regarding the relation between different law suits relative to the validity of a patent and the infringement thereof. In particular, the case submitted to the Judges of legitimacy concerned the relation between an infringement judgment, with only a secondary […]

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 […]