Italy

Firm overview

The Simmons & Simmons international IP team offers the specialist expertise of a boutique IP practice complemented by the full service offering of a major international firm. We are well known in the market for our high-calibre clients and involvement in many of the leading IP cases and transactions, both in the UK and internationally.

Our IP practice, comprising litigation, prosecution and transactional expertise, for both brands/trade mark and patents matters, is one of the only international firms that provide the full suite of IP services from one trusted source – a significant differentiator in the legal market.

We boast an extremely deep and strong bench. Consisting of over 100 fee earners internationally, our IP team has a presence across EMEA (in Belgium, China, Dubai, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, The Netherlands), the UK and Asia.

Known for our expertise in the life sciences, fintech and technology sectors, we leverage our in-depth industry knowledge developed over our 120+ year history to provide the best advice to the most sophisticated clients. The majority of our patent litigators, attorneys and transactional IP lawyers have technical backgrounds, including advanced degrees and scientific research experience, giving our clients the advantage of market leading legal advisors who also understand their complex and cutting-edge inventions.

Firm overview

Founded in the mid-1990s, Jacobacci Avvocati-Avocats has always been a point of reference in the field of intellectual property, in Italy and abroad.

Today the firm’s strength lies in a team of 15 partners and over 40 professionals operating in 4 offices located in Italy and France.

All of the lawyers in the firm specialise in different areas of Intellectual Property, from trademarks to patents to design, to protection of the innovative ideas of an international clientele, operating in a wide range of sectors, from technology to services.

Over the years, the Jacobacci Avvocati-Avocats professionals have represented clients in matters of significant legal complexity, across the entire intellectual property landscape, obtaining ground-breaking decisions and contributing to legal precedent, before both Italian and European Courts, in numerous areas of intellectual property law and practice.

National experience and international vocation, attention to detail and exploration of the new frontiers of law. We are constantly focused on the client's needs.

Firm overview

Headed and founded in 2004 by Dr. Professor Cesare Galli, (Full Professor of IP Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Parma), the firm operates mainly in the field of Intellectual Property law with a specific experience in Pharmaceutical, Biotech and TMT Patents and Fashion & Luxury litigations.

Having its main office in Milan and branch offices in Brescia and Parma, the firm came into being as a boutique firm, highly specialized in IP law, Business Law and Competition/Antitrust. The Firm is characterized by the personal imprint of its founder, and has maintained strong reputation by combining it with a firmly market-oriented approach aimed at enhancing the procedural instruments in order to reach positive results in the shortest terms. Professor Galli has also been personally involved in the process that led Italy to taking part in the Unified Patent Court Agreement in 2013 and in the Enhanced Cooperation on the Unitary Patent in 2015 and flanked the Italian delegates in the drafting of the Rules of Procedure (RoP).

The Firm clients include large foreign industrial groups working in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food and fashion sectors and Italian firms operating in the most cutting edge fields such as new technologies as well as TMT, mechanics and electro mechanics industries.

The firm displays a special competence both in patent and trademark litigation and out of court field strategy (such as license agreements and international transfers of technology).

Network Memberships:
AIPPI, LES, INDICAM, AMCHAM

Firm overview

Jacobacci & Partners has 95 professionals in 13 offices in 3 countries in Europe (Italy, Spain, and France), supported by 300 paralegals and administration staff.

Our team of highly specialized professionals manage a portfolio of around 120,000 brands for clients of all types: we provide assistance in all areas of brand management, ranging from registration of a company logo to fighting against counterfeiting on a global scale. We work with the client to build a strategy that aims to correctly value, protect and defend their intellectual property rights. IP professionals in the firm’s trademark department have specialties in fashion and cosmetic industries, food, automotive, mechanical, pharmaceutical and agriculture sectors, to cite a few.

Jacobacci & Partners manages over 100,000 patents across a wide variety of subject matter, from mechanics to electronics and software, from industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry to biotechnologies and nanotechnologies.  We represent clients in the filing of patents at the national, European and international level and have been involved in complex patent litigation for over 140 years dating back to an infringement action concerning Edison’s light bulb.

The Local Business Development Team is composed of a selected group of trademark and patent attorneys having principal business activity in the small and local regions of Italy, France and Spain, with a client portfolio mainly devoted to SMEs. The aim of the team is to collect and share best practices for assisting the SMEs in the local regions and to foster business development in those areas with the aim to share inside the entire Jacobacci group such best practices among the colleagues.

The firm’s code of ethics is regularly updated, respecting and enhancing the concept of diversity through its diversity policy, which ensures all employees are treated equally with regard to diversity and inclusion. With a female CEO, and many women in central roles, we cannot fail to be a company projected towards inclusion and ever greater gender equality.

Numerous corporate social initiatives have been set up in view of a company policy that harmonizes economic objectives with the social and environmental ones of the reference territory, with the aim of preserving the environmental, social and human heritage for present and future generations. These initiatives relate to the quality, reliability and safety of the product, but also to the safeguard of the environment and health and energy saving, according to a management approach that considers not only strong economic results, but also the wider impact that the company produces, through its work, on society and the environment.

In order to improve working conditions and create a better place and working environment for everyone, the leadership of Jacobacci & Partners has launched the JforYou project starting in January 2023. This project represents an organic and continuous plan, comprising concrete initiatives, dedicated to all people working in our company, with the aim of improving the work environment and promoting a better work-life balance.

Network Memberships
INTA, ECTA, GRUR, PTMG, MARQUES, AIPPI, FICPI, AUTM, LES, LESI, INDICAM, Union des Fabricants