THE B&Z GROUP

Ing. Barzanò & Zanardo was established in 1878, the five offices of Rome, Milan, Turin, Vicenza and Biella are conveniently located to satisfy the needs of both our Italian and foreign Clients.

The Rome office, which obviously deals with all aspects of Intellectual Property matters, enjoys a position close to the Central Italian Administration and Government Offices, particulary the Italian Patent and Trademark Office. Among its clients, besides Italian companies, there are primary foreign multinational Corporations.

Our Milan office, besides the assistance given to industrial and commercial enterprises of its region, offers the opportunity to foreign corporations of election of domicile before the jurisdiction of the Court of Milan, which alone, according to recent statistics, deals with 65% of Intellectual Property judicial disputes.

Another important reality of our operation is the Turin office, serving since more than 30 years Italian clients of a very active area especially in the automotive industry, assisting European and Extra-European clients, as well.

To the above mentioned offices we add Vicenza and Biella, which are using with synergy the back-office resources respectively of the Rome and Turin offices. However, as in our tradition they both offer full assistance on all aspects of Intellectual Property matters. These offices serve the needs of very active industrial areas of the northern part of Italy. Vicenza features a fully staffed office, whereas Biella is managed with the cooperation of the attorneys of the Turin Office.

However, within the frame of each office, we are in the position to offer full assistance on the widest variety of Intellectual Property matters.

Areas of Expertise

Patent	Trademark
Utility Model	Customs
Model or Design	Licenses
Software	Technology Transfer
Semiconductor Topography	Search
Plant Breeder Rights	Judicial Matter
Injunctions	Evaluation of Patents and Trademarks

 

The expertise of our Group couples the skills of jurists with those of patent attorneys with a technical background.

All our attorneys are prepared to deal with any complex problem relating to their specific Intellectual Property expertise through both in-house training and specialized publicly available courses, designed and aimed at achieving their full preparation and official graduation in Italian and European level.

Our patent attorneys are trained to offer advice in all traditional technical fields as well as in those of the most recently developed technologies, from mechanics to electronics, from chemistry to biotechnology, from the topography of semiconductor to plant variety, for filing and enforcing patents in Italy and everywhere abroad.

We also deal with with creations deserving protection, according to national and foreign laws as Utility models.

A separate treatment is given to those creations which may be protected under the provisions relating to the field of design. These laws have recently been reviewed and updated at European level, consequently to follow the complexity of the new regulations and provisions we tend at advicing our clients combining the skills of both our jurists and our patent attorneys.

Among the tasks carried out by our patent attorneys, besides the assistance to the clients in the enforcement of their patents, there are the technical expertises as experts indipendently appointed by Italian Courts in patent judicial disputes (full scale law-suits and injunction proceedings). Our patent attorneys further interact with the attorneys of the legal department, as far as the licenses and technology transfers are concerned.

The legal department is involved by legacy in the protection of marks, company names and logos, domain names, in addition to Copyright and software. Therefore rather important is the activity of availability searches with its related advices and the subsequent phase of registration for trademarks and domain names carried out both domestically and in any given foreign Country.

The attorneys of our legal department do give assistance and advices to both Italian and foreign clients in any type of dispute (judicial and non-judicial) relating to marks, copyright, control and enforcement of illegal import of counterfeited products through specific seizures within the domestic Customs, furthermore the attorneys of the legal department are in close cooperation with our patent attorneys (with a more technical background) within the frame of patent law-suits and more in general they deal with all aspects of the Competition rights.

Strictly related to the assistance of clients in their judicial and non-judicial disputes there is the activity of studying and drafting agreements of complex Intellectual Property portfolios, and more in detail agreements for acquisition of companies or branches thereof, know-how and technology transfer, patent and/or trademark licensing along with any procedural step necessary, both in Italy and abroad, for their proper recordal.

We also carry out the activity of due diligence as a supplement to the acquisition and/or incorporation of companies.