Simona Cazzaniga

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Simona Cazzaniga was born on the 29 April 1962 in Abbiategrasso, where she is still a resident.

After finishing her secondary schooling at the Liceo “Benedetto Cairoli” in Vigevano, she read law at the Università degli Studi di Milano, where she graduated, having written her thesis in industrial law , with the title:’Il contratto di edizione’, and she then became a university assistant in the same subject under Prof. Giuseppe Sena.

After her first teaching experiences at the Law Faculty in the above subjects, she had the opportunity to lecture ‘copyright and related IP Law’ as part of a masters course for managers in the editorial and music sectors sponsored by the EEC at the Centro del Tuscolano directed by Mogol, and to assume the role of professor for the procedural section of the course in specialisation in patent and technology licenses, organised each year by CONVEY from Turin, and once again funded by the EU, for graduates in law, engineering and chemistry. Some of her students from that course completed internships in the firm which she works, and some formers students took up full-time roles in the firm.

Parallel to her academic and research activity, Simona Cazzaniga undertook her forensic career immediately, becoming a member of the Law Society of Milan, as well as Studio Legale Sutti – a noted Milanese Firm which has operated for the last fifty years in the provision of corporate services, with offices in Rome, Genoa, London e Tokyo, and now in Sofia and Belgrade. She became a partner of the Firm before the age of thirty, and she is currently the head of the Industrial and competition Law Departments, which provide many legal services, including agency services in patents and trademarks.

In addition to the numerous mentions and recognition of the Department led by Cazzaniga, in the relevant media, and numerous high quality profiles of her, such as”analysis of the Italian legal services market according to London lawyers reccomendations”, accessible on-line at the site of the World Legal Forum – A Guide to Law Firms around the Globe, and published in the June 1999 issue of InBrief – Simona Cazzaniga is indicated as one of the two “IP gurus of the moment” in Italy. Similarly, she was recommended to all American lawyers as an Italian lawyer by the prestigious Guide to Foreign Law Firms 2000 , published by the American Bar Association, in the Section of International Law and Practice, as well as in the October 2002 and April 2003 editions of the IP Europe supplement in The American Lawyer, where her Firm is now the first amongst those recommended for IP in Italy.

In 2001 she was selected and recommended by the Guide to the World’s Leading Patent Lawyers and the Guide to the World’s Leading Trade Mark Law Practitioners published by Legal Media Group, as well as once again for Trademarks by IFLR 1000, the international directory of law firms of the International Financial Law Review (same editor), which also cites her for her activity in patent work in its 2003, as she is likewise indicated in the 2001, 2002 and 2003 editions of the European Legal Experts guide, which contains a short biography of her, (the guide was published by Legalease Ltd, and is also accessible in the Web edition), for “Intellectual Property” in Italy. Equally the 2002-2003 edition of The World’s Leading Lawyers places her amongst the first three Italian lawyers specialised in Industrial Law in Italy, based on the result of a survey carried out amongst approximately six thousand lawyers and corporate clients throughout the world.

Her activity in the field of repression of counterfeiting (she participated in a course to teach and update the Milanese Judiciary in this field) was valuable in the designation of her Firm as the Italian member of Counterforce, an organisation of Law Firms created by the International Chamber of Commerce of Paris. Aimed at the global assistance of victims of trademark, product and patent counterfeit, which is part of the ICC Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau. She was personally highlighted as an “Expert” by Patnet – The Portal for IP.

As part of Studio Legale Sutti, Simona Cazzaniga was also the force behind the creation of the office in Abbiategrasso, which aims to make the provision of services easier and more convenient for the businesses and clients in that area. She is a member of the local Rotary Club, well-noted in the Abbiategrasso section of the Milan Courts, she has often been interviewed by the local press, as a lawyer, member of Studio Legale Sutti or as a simple citizen, in particular the weekly La Libertà. She also recently organised a conference for thr Small Enterprise Association of Milan (API-Milano) in Abbiategrasso, which took place on the 8th September 2000 on the topic “The delegation of functions. How to limit personal and criminal liability of entrepreneurs and Chairmen for the violation of morms”.

As a professional and researcher, Simona Cazzaniga is amongst the founding members of the AAIPI, Association of Italian IP Lawyers, and through the years has become a member of various organisations and related commissions, sections or working groups related to industrial and competition law, amongst which, the Association International des Jeunes Avocats (in which she was elected as a member of the executive committee in 1993-1995, and she helped to found the Industrial Law Commission in the Hague in 1990), the International Bar Association (Committee SBL-C, “antitrust & Trade Law”, e Committee SBL-L, “Intellectual Property and Entertainment”), the Union International des Avocats, the Licensing Executive Society, the Union des Avocats Européens, and was the secretary of the Commission for Relations between Lawyers and the Judiciary made up of Judicial Offices of the Milan District’s Court of Appeal and the Board of the Milan Law Society.

PRINCIPAL CONFERENCES AND CONVENTIONS

• “Introduzione al brevetto europeo” (Associazione Valutaristi Italiani, Milano 1987)
• “General Condition and Terms of Trade under Italian Law” (AIJA, Munich 1988)
• “The Legal Protection of the Industrial Design in Italy” (AIJA, Amsterdam 1992)
• “Sponsorship Agreements in the Italian Jurisdiction” (AIJA, Montreux 1996)
• “Made in…: le indicazioni di provenienza nel diritto italiano” (UAE, Milan 1997)
• “La protezione legale dell’industrial design, dei modelli ornamentali e delle creazioni della moda in italia” (Camera di Commercio giapponese in italia, Milan 1998).
• “Licensing and Trade in the Foodstuff and Agrochemical Industry” (LES, Venice 1999)
• “Quando e come intentare azione di contraffazione di un marchio” (IIR, Milan 2000)
• “‘Giudice Unico’: opportunità e sfide per la difesa dei diritti di Proprietà Intellettuale” (INDICAM, Milan 2000)
• “IP Due Diligence” (in Due Diligence, IIR, Milan 2001).
• “Uso abusivo dei segni distintivi e nomi di dominio” (in Tutela del dominio Internet e del marchio, IIR, Milan 2002)
• “La proprietà intellettuale: come meglio tutelare il proprio patrimonio aziendale” (in Corso di Diritto Comunitario, Ordine degli Avvocati di Parma, Parma 2002)
• “Come tutelare il marchio registrato ed affrontare i problemi di interferenza tra marchio, dominio e utilizzo indebito del segno distintivo in altri ambiti”, (in Marchi e nomi a dominio, IIR, Milan 2002)
• “La nuova tutela della proprietà intellettuale nell’era telematica” (in Italian Cyberspace Law Conference, Bologna 2003).
• “La tutela brevettuale del software. Aspetti industrialistici, penali e fiscali” (AICA, Milan 2004)
• “Brevetti, tecnologie, diritto d’autore e licenze nel settore dell’Information Tecnology e delle Telecomunicazioni” (in Master in Information Technology Law, Omni@media, Orvieto 2004)

PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS

• “Conversione di brevetto d’invenzione nullo in brevetto per modello di utilità”, in Rivista di Diritto Industriale, 1988
• antitrust – La legislazione in materia di tutela della concorrenza nei principali Paesi industrializzati, Milan 1990, Giuffré (with Giuseppe Sena and Mario Franzosi).
• “The Italian Position on Intellectual Property and Information Technology” in Intellectual Property and Information Technology, supplement to Managing Intellectual Property, 1993.
• “The Legal Protection of Fashion and Industrial Design in Italy”, in The Patent Yearbook 1993, Euromoney.
• “Industrial design e diritto d’autore in materia di opere dell’architettura”, in Il Foro Padano, 1994.
• “Intellectual Property and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Italy”, in IP and the Pharmaceutical Industry, supplement to Managing Intellectual Property, September 1994.
• “The EC Trade Mark Directive and Italy”, in The Trade Mark Yearbook 1994, Euromoney.
• “La tutela d’urgenza in caso di concorrenza sleale”, in Il Foro Padano, 1995.
• “L’antitrust come fenomeno di colonizzazione culturale”, in l’Uomo libero, 1996.
• “Made in… – Made in Ruritania – Made in Italy”, in European Intellectual Property Review, 1996.
• “Updating design protection in Italy”, in Managing Intellectual Property, 1999 (with Andrea Montanari and Joel Smith).
• “The Web and the Legislation On the Press: the Italian Views” in The European Lawyer, September 2001 (with Gianluca Gilardi).
• L’uso dei marchi nei nomi di dominio, IIR, Milan 2002.