Who’s Who Legal 2024 has ranked our founding partner Giovanni Antonio Grippiotti "Italy Leader" in its list of specialised intellectual property lawyers in Italy. Giovanni Antonio has been included in the Who's Who Legal rankings since 2018. Who’s Who Legal guides are...

Our partners Giovanni Antonio Grippiotti and Mario Pozzi have been named IP Stars in the trademark category by the IP Stars 2024 guide to the world’s leading IP firms and practitioners. Giovanni Antonio receives this recognition for 10th consecutive year, Mario for...

The third seat of the Unified Patent Court’s central division is to be inaugurated in Milan on 26 June 2024: a most important event for the city of Milan and for its community of intellectual property practitioners. SIB and SIB LEX are hosting an Aperitivo to...

The company Subiace brought a court action before the Court of Rome to obtain a declaration of nullity of the Italian plant variety protection for a new bean variety named ETNA, which was also protected in the United States of America (USA) and owned by Asgrow Seed...

On 16 May 2024 SIB LEX and SIB, together with the European Patent Litigators Network (EPLN) are to hold UPC Aperitivo, a one-hour webinar on the most significant cases before the Unified Patent Court (UPC) during its first six months, organised by the EPLN of which...

With a decision issued on 9 April 2024, the Italian Supreme Court (hereinafter “the Court”) declared invalid an agreement between the well known American table grape breeder, Sun World, and Ms. Miglionico, an Italian grape grower. Ms. Miglionico had previously been...

On 25 March 2024 our partner Mario Pozzi is to contribute to the 26th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy organised by the University of Akron School of Law. Mario will take part in the session “Early Results from the UPC and Considerations for...

Our partner Mario Pozzi, Attorney-at-law and Unified Patent Court Representative, and SIB partner Paolo Di Giovine, European Patent Attorney and European Patent Litigator, are attending the 2024 Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation EU Summit taking place in Amsterdam,...

Filing to protect a plant variety? Bear in mind that the novelty requirement is not the same as for patents: the Italian Supreme Court has recently ruled that the mere existence of an earlier application abroad filed by the same applicant for the same plant variety...