The Customs Regulations 2013 relative to the protection of intellectual property rights by the customs authority have been recently approved, which from next 1 January 2014 shall abrogate and substitute the CE Regulations 1383/2003 in force. It should be remembered that the customs procedure allows owners of industrial property rights to intervene so that eventual […]
Category Archives: Patents & Inventions
“Intelligent” videocameras for plants in isolated areas
The Privacy Authority has accepted the requests put forward by an industrial group in order to install an “intelligent” videosurveillance system presenting a movement recognition feature to protect five photovoltaic plants located in isolated areas. The applications for preliminary verification that were filed derive from the peculiar organizational and security needs of the production sites […]
Novartis: India does not grant the patent
The 1st of April 2013 the Supreme Court of India rejected an appeal filed by Novartis, against the decision taken by the indian patent office of not granting a patent that concerned a particular form of an oncological medication known as Glivec. Glivec is considered an exceptional medicine, the outcome of a long research and […]
Using other people’s nickname is an offence
The Court of Cassation, with verdict n. 18826 of 29 April 2013, has ruled that using another person’s nickname and personal data online is considered identity theft referred to in the article 494 of the Penal Code. The case in question is rather peculiar. A woman had published her ex-employer’s nickname and telephone number in […]