2010
Law Decree n° 131 of August 13, 2010
2008
Referral of the President of the EPO to the Enlarged Board of Appeal, concerning points of law on computer-implemented inventions Priority Art Search on new Patent Applications London Protocol Community Design - Active accession or European Union to the Hague Agreement concerning Industial Designs and Models Prior Art Search 2007
The iter of the Italian ratification of the Revision Act of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents came to the end.
Approved Law No. 1628 ratifying the Revision Act of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents
October 31, 2007, United States District Court for the Eastern District Court of Virginia: Preliminary Injunction
Community Design: accession to the Hague Agreement - Geneve Act
US Patent & Trademark Office: final rules for patent application prosecution.
The law project for the ratification of the London Agreement has been approuved on 24 august, last, by the French Ministry Counsel.
From July 1, 2007 the General Direction of S.I.A.E. (Authors’ & Publishers’ Italian Society) – Section OLAF has activated a service for the filing of industrial plans. Decree fixing Patent and Design or Model Rights (O.G. n° 81 od April 6, 2007). The adhesion of the European Community to the Geneva Act of the The Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs and models
2006 INDUSTRY 2015 2005 December 27 2005 - Finance Act 2006 - abolition of taxes on patents European Council - March 7, 2005 2003 Legislative Decree No. 168 of June 27 2003 - Specific divisions of Industrial and Intellectual Property to Tribunals and Courts of Appeal Law 273 of 12th December 2002 - Applicability of Copyright on Industrial Models or Designs. 2002
EC - The new Implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 on Community Designs. First filing to the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM). Supplementary Protection Certificate. New provisions on national Italian SPCs. EU - The New Regulation on Community Models or Designs (In force as from March 6, 2002). A first Comment. Approved a new legislative decree on the juridical protection of designs and models. From the EPO Site.
2001
Public Employee Inventions. Judgment in Case C-377/98- Legal Protection of Biotechnological Inventions . Short comments on the new Design Law .
2000 "Brokerage" patent infringement. Transgenic plants patentability. Orphan medicinal products regulation (EC) No 141/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1999. Software IP protection in Italy 1999 New Italian Vegetable Varieties Decree. A new law in San Marino. Decree of 29 June 1999 No. 74.
