Italy

Bird & Bird’s intellectual property practice in Italy is highly recommended for patent disputes work, and for its pan-European patent litigation expertise. The IP team’s experienced trade mark attorneys assist clients with brand protection services.  

Notable practitioners: Paola Ruggiero, Daniele De Angelis and Edoardo Barbera.  

Notable patent practitioners: Giovanni Galimberti, Massimiliano Mostardini and Antonella De Gregori.  

Partners Giovanni Galimberti and Massimiliano Mostardini lead the firm’s Italian IP practice

IP agency Bugnion SpA has one of the busiest IP filing and prosecution practices in Italy. The firm expanded in 2022 thanks to the acquisition of IP firm Cuccia & Simino.  

Notable patent practitioners: Ezio Bianciardi and Paolo Bellomia.  

Notable trademark practitioners: Paola Stefanelli and Donatella Prandin.

Castellano IP is a boutique IP firm founded in 2021. The firm combines hard and soft IP with expertise in trade marks, e-commerce, unfair competition and data protection issues. The firm is also buoyed by a dynamic prosecution function in the life sciences and TMT sectors.  

Notable practitioners: Carmen Castellano.

GR Legal is a specialist litigation boutique founded in 2020 after a domestic merger. The firm has accrued vast experience in IP contentious, out of court consultancy and advisory services. IP transactions are complements.   

Notable practitioners: Luca Give and Aurelio Richichi.  

Founding partner Luca Give co-heads with copyright specialist Aurelio Richichi.

IP Law Galli is admired on the Italian market for the quality of its advice. The firm has extensive experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, technology, media, and the telecoms sectors. The firm’s lawyers provide judicial litigation and extrajudicial consultancy services concerning patents, alongside trade mark litigation and licensing services.  

Notable patent practitioners: Cesare Galli and Mariangela Bogni. 

Notable practitioners: Alberto Contini and Giulia Galimberti.

Jacobacci & Partners is a reputed international IP protection agency. Brand management services include everything from registration to international anti-counterfeiting. The firm represents clients in patent filing on national, European, and international mandates with patent litigation capacity.  

Notable patent practitioners: Paolo Ernesto Crippa.  

Notable trademark practitioners: Franca Acuto.

LGV Avvocati is an IP-orientated law firm in cross-border litigation. In the area of patents and know-how, the firm has obtained several judicial search orders. Unfair competition capacity is equally revered on the market.  

Notable practitioners: Simona Lavagnini, Luigi Goglia and Tankred Thiem. 

The Founding partner is Simona Lavagnini.

Martini Manna is boutique firm known for unfair competition, commercial and advertising law. It works across cross border proceedings and arbitrations. Sectoral coverage includes entertainment, automotive, electronics, life sciences and information technology. Although exclusively based in Italy, the firm has durable networks in Europe and the United States. 

Notable practitioners: Elena Martini and Luigi Manna.  

Notable trademark practitioner: Rocco Lanzavecchia.

Murgitroyd is a full-service European attorney firm with a combined prosecution and contentious litigation capacity. Service spectrum breadth encompasses prosecution, oppositions, and dispute resolution. The firm is at the forefront of AI, blockchain, autonomous vehicles, chemistry and metaverse IP.  

Notable patent practitioner: Guido Zerbi and Marina Mauro.  

Notable trademark practitioner: Elena Brioschi.  

Patent attorney Guido Zerbi is head of the Milan office.

Racheli is a leading attorney firm with repute in IP management, clearance, prosecution, enforcement, and commercial exploitation mandates. The firm has a burnished reputation in the automotive, life sciences, and fashion industries.   

Notable patent practitioners: Ugo Rossi.

Notable trademark practitioners: Iris Bilardo and Michel Jolicoeur.

Simmons & Simmon’s IP practice in Italy is overseen by partner Giulio Enrico Sironi. In cross-border disputes, the team can also collaborate with colleagues in other European offices, particularly the London office.   

Notable practitioners: Anna Colmano and Stefania Bergia.

Società Italiana Brevetti is a leading firm in Italy for intellectual property protection and portfolio management. The firm’s expertise in complex IP includes supplementary protection certificates, predominantly in the pharmaceutical sector. The firm’s IP practice is one of the few with expertise in plant breeders’ rights and advises leaders in the agricultural industry. The practice has an experienced team of patent attorneys handling filing and prosecution work in industries such as biotechnology, chemistry, nanotechnology pharmaceuticals, electronics, and mechanics.  

Notable patent practitioners: Elisabetta Papa.

Notable trademark practitioners: Fabrizio De Benedetti, Angelica Torrigiani Malaspina and Mara Mondolfo

Its trade mark department is headed by Fabrizio De Benedetti and Elisabetta Papa heads the patent department.

Studio Torta is one of the most respected boutique firms for intellectual property protection and portfolio management advice. The firm’s patent team covers a range of technical fields, from mechanical engineering and electronics to chemistry.  

Notable patent practitioners: Mauro Eccetto.  

Notable trademark practitioners: Raffaella Barbuto, Cristina Rolando and Maria Cristina Baldini.

TCBM is an IP boutique formed by integrating Bianchetti & Minoja and Trevisan & Cuonzo. Biomechanical patent law is a specialism complemented by consultancy and patent prosecution. The team is active before the EPO, EUIPO and WIPO.  

Notable practitioners: Fabrizio Minoja, Silvia Bertuccio and Lorenzo Lualdi.

Trevisan & Cuonzo is a leading law firm in Italy for intellectual property litigation with expertise in the automotive, construction, life sciences, mechanical, electronics and consumer goods sectors. The firm has developed a formidable reputation in life sciences and engineering patent disputes.  

In February 2022, Trevisan & Cuonzo Intellectual Property Services joined forces with Bianchetti & Minoja under a new consortium. The partners have multiple associates to support them in patent litigation.  

Notable practitioners: Gabriel Cuonzo, Luca Trevisan, Daniela Ampollini.  

Gabriel Cuonzo is the managing partner and head of life sciences.