Lawyers

Fabrizio  Jacobacci KC

Fabrizio Jacobacci KC

Work Department

IP

Position

Fabrizio Jacobacci is the senior founding partner of Studio Legale Jacobacci & Associati.

He specializes in litigation and arbitration, most notably in the area of competition law and intellectual property, with particular emphasis on Life Sciences, including the regulatory aspects related to medical devices and pharma products. He has acquired an international reputation for his handling of various complex patent and trademark disputes on behalf of major international corporations.

Over the past ten years, Fabrizio has been consistently ranked amongst the top Italian intellectual property lawyers by the major legal professional magazines and was ranked in the top 15 trademark lawyers worldwide.

Career

Fabrizio worked with the German law firm Punder, Volhard, Weber & Axter (now Clifford Chance) in Frankfurt in 1988 and subsequently with Linklaters in London in 1989. In 1996 he founded Studio Legale Jacobacci & Associati.

Fabrizio has acquired an international reputation for his handling of various complex patent and trademark disputes on behalf of leading Italian and foreign companies.

Memberships

Fabrizio is a frequent speaker at international conferences on intellectual property matters, including for the Intellectual Property Section of the New York State Bar Association, the International Trademark Association, the International Bar Association, Marques, the EPLAW - European Patent Lawyers Association and Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation.

He is a lecturer at the WIPO post-graduate specialisation course on intellectual property, jointly organized by WIPO and Turin University, and a member of the editorial board of the "European Trademark Reports" published by Sweet & Maxwell.

Education

Fabrizie graduated in law  from the University of Turin in 1989 and was admitted to the (Turin) Bar in 1995 and to the Supreme Court, Italy, in 2007.

Mentions

Italy

Intellectual property