Copyright in the Digital Single Market

On 12 September 2018 the European Parliament approved, with important tweaks, the proposal for a directive on Copyright law of the Committee on Legal Affairs of June 2018 The more debated amendments regard Articles 11 and 13. Art. 11 on the ‘protection of press...

Patents: fair compensation for non-remunerated inventions ex art. 64 C.P.I.; The Milan Court of Appeal confirms employer’s duty also in the case it has not patented the employee’s invention, but it has transferred it to a third party.

The decision n. 3165/2018 has been published on 27 June 2018 in a proceedings in which an inventor employee has been assisted by Studio Legale Sena e Tarchini against the employer company belonging to a multinational group. It has confirmed that the employer company...

Legislative Decree 11 May 2018 n. 63

On 22 June 2018 the Legislative Decree 11 May 2018 n. 63 shall enter into force   implementing the EU Directive no. 2016/943 on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against their unlawful acquisition, use and disclosure and...

News on the protection of know-how

In May there were two important innovations in terms of protection of know-how: one legislative and the other jurisprudential. Infact, on 8 May 2018, the Council of Ministers has definitively approved the Legislative Decree which implements the EU Directive n....