Design Package

Yesterday, 10 October 2024, the EU Council finally approved the renewed acts (Directive and Regulation) that compose the so-called design package, which regulates the protection of industrial designs. This is the last step before it is published in the Official...

Upcycling

Upcycling: everyone’ does but few know the legal implications of protecting recognisable brands. This is a growing and ubiquitous phenomenon for which it is important to create culture and information in order to ensure a truly virtuous process and avoid legal...

IP tender reopened, Italia Oggi reports

Between late July and August, Mimit’s call for Patents+, Designs+ and Trademarks+, reopens for the three-year period 2021-2023: an interesting time window to submit applications for non-repayable grants for the valorization of industrial property titles; the...

China: Intellectual Property House

The Indicam meeting on IP protection in China was a great success: the focus was on Industrial Design and Fashion, on the tools that foreign entrepreneurs have at their disposal to protect the shape of their products, from the so-called Design Patent to Copyright,...