Category Archives: Whatever

Fendi vs. Fox

This is the kind of decision that makes me doubt about IP! I actually have not seen the full text yet, but the article published by Italy’s most authoritative economic newspaper – “Il Sole 24 Ore” – leaves a few … Continue reading

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In vino veritas

The “Made in Italy” is worldwide known and appreciated… and always well paid! Clothes, food and wine: everybody loves’em and everybody would like to dress, eat and drink like Italians do (well, maybe French people they wouldn’t, … too bad!). … Continue reading

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Ceci n’est pas (seulement) une chaise!

Finally, Italian IP Courts are outside the eighteenth century and have entered the twenty-first! In January the Court of Milan has issued a decision regarding the protection under copyright law of a great design chair, the Panton Chair by Verner … Continue reading

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…And we are back!

Hokusai is not dead, I just took a long break but now I’m back! And for this 2007 resurrection, I think that the editorial by Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in the British Medical Journal titled ‘Scrooge and intellectual property … Continue reading

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