Studio Legale Sutti

New developments in the never-ending struggle over domain names

sutti — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:43:51 +0000

Italian Judges seem to be wandering through a never-ending night when it comes to IP protection over the ‘Net.

At the beginning of October the owner of the brand “Moncler” succeeded in having the DA Office in Padua enforce the “seizure” of 500 domain names which contained the word “moncler” (including domain names such as monclerfans.com, ilovemoncler.com or monclersuper.com) on the ground of alleged trademark infringement and sale of counterfeited goods.

However, the very same DA Office had to concur that the seizure at hand had gone way too far, since no serious fact-checking supported the enforced measure (some of the domain names did not even correspond to an actual website other than a simple “placeholder”) and during the appellate hearing held on the last 4th of November the office itself requested the seizure to be lifted.

Moreover, the Appellate Panel of the Tribunal of Padua affirmed for the first time that associations of ISPs (Assoprovider, AIIP) which were the ultimate addressee of the seizure – being it, in fact, a sort of restraint order asking the ISPs to block access to those domains – have a cause of action against said order although they are not technically speaking parties to the process at hand.

Is this the end of en-masse seizure of domain names without any real underlying crime? It does not appear so, since word has it that there is another seizure request from the Guardia di Finanza of Agropoli down the pipeline. We will wait and see how this case is going to be handled.

Gianluca Gilardi

Samsung vs. Apple round 1: draw

sutti — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:15:07 +0000

Today the first round of the Samsung vs. Apple patent litigation pertaining to 3G technology took place before the Patent Court of Milan.

The Judge – Dr. Marina Tavassi, President of the Patent Court – after hearing the parties’ counsel on the interim relief sought by Samsung has granted a term for filing further defenses to both the plaintiff and the defendant.

Lo Studio Legale Sutti inaugura il nuovo Russian Desk

sutti — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:37:46 +0000

Lo Studio Legale Sutti, già noto per la sua
diretta presenza in quattro giurisdizioni dei Balcani (Serbia, Croazia,
Bulgaria e Romania), a seguito del crescente interesse della sua
clientela per la Federazione Russa e la CSI ha attivato presso il suo
ufficio di Milano in via Montenapoleone un Russian Desk, composto da
Andrej Suknev, cittadino russo, Veranika Apet, bielorussa e bilingue, e
Dragana Kurtes, laureata in lingua russa. Un'analoga iniziativa ha
interessato il suo ufficio di Sofia, dove il responsabile del Russian
Desk è Kaloyan Uzunov. Mentre non è prevista l'apertura di uffici propri
nella regione, sono inoltre in corso trattative con i principali
corrispondenti locali dello studio per verificare la possibilità di
selezionare ed identificare un singolo partner strategico interessato a
sua volta ad essere rappresentato in italia e nei Balcani.

Google loses copyright case in Germany for Youtube videos

sutti — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:02:54 +0000

Annus horribilis for Google does not seem to end.

As far as we know this is the first decision on the merits finding out BigG liable for copyright infringement for videos posted by users on the Youtube tech platform.

(via Gianluca Gilardi)

Gianluca Gilardi on Google’s new privacy policy

sutti — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:07:30 +0000

La Repubblica has quoted Gianluca Gilardi with reference to the upcoming new Privacy Policy of BigG.

Apparently, 2010 is not the best year ever for Google as far as privacy compliance is concerned.

Studio Legale Sutti at the Internet Identity Workshop

sutti — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:46:28 +0000

Gianluca Gilardi is going to attend on behalf of Studio Legale Sutti at the first European Internet Identity Workshop, bringing some thoughts on the issues of privacy and data retention in the global market with a special focus on opinion 2/2010 of the Working Party 29 on behavioural advertising.

Next stop: Yahoo Vs. Google?

sutti — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:16:27 +0000

Although there is no clear threat in Yahoo’s words I would not be surprised if Yahoo took some action against Mountain View.

http://www.ysearchblog.com/2010/09/10/innovation-is-alive-in-search/ (via Gianluca Gilardi)

Studio Legale Sutti at the Social Media Week

sutti — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:47:34 +0000

Gianluca Gilardi is scheduled to take part in a roundtable on 21 September 2001 within the framework of the Social Media Week on the topic of “Social Identity, Brand Protection e Monitoring: dalla ricerca alla litigation”.

The agenda of the roundtable and further details on the event are available here.

Studio Legale Sutti launches its new website

sutti — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:39:21 +0000

The previous version of the sutti.com website was rolled out in the mid-90s, being one of the first examples of communication on the Web for an Italian international Law Firm.

It kept standing out for years amongst its competitors for the wealth of information it offered, far from the “one-page placeholders” which are still adopted by many lawfirms.

Although we at Studio Legale Sutti became sort of affectionate to this part of our history, we feel that time has come to boost ourselves into the Web 2.0 era. That is why we are today presenting our new website which – true to our own policy of “always being on the bleeding edge” – sets once again the standard for Italian international law firms: Studio Legale Sutti is the first Italian international lawfirm to embrace the Web 2.0 paradigm and to set its presence in Facebook and Twitter and to syndicate the website content through an RSS feed.

Please come and join us in the future of the Web and – true to the spirit of the Social Network era – share your thoughts with us and our contacts. (06 Aug 2010)