Companies often find themselves in big trouble when an employee during the course of his duties makes an invention that is particularly useful for the company. Such situations are quite common and in the absence of a clear contract and without a specific wage that create conflict in the most critical cases. There is indeed […]
Category Archives: Patents & Inventions
Design and Trademark
On the 22th of October Laura Turini will have a speach about Trademark and design in Florence, Auditorium Promofirenze.
The revaluation of intangible assets
The 2014 Stability Law has dealt with the revaluation of companies’ assets including intangible assets such as trademarks, patents and know how. Often intangible assets, even if maintaining an economic value, are not accounted since they are already amortized. As a consequence, the revaluation, if possible, is an important instrument of optimization of the fiscal […]
Mass surveillance, privacy and freedom of expression
A meeting took place in recent days in Rome at the headquarters of the Data Protection Authority between Antonello Soro, Chairman of the Authority, and Frank La Rue, special rapporteur of the United Nations for the promotion and protection of freedom of expression. The meeting is prior to the official visit that La Rue will […]