Cesare Galli
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IP Law Galli
Client SatisfactionLed by reputed IP expert Cesare Galli and key contact for pharma, biotech, and mechanical sector patent disputes work Mariangela Bogni, the team at IP Law Galli is equipped to handle a broad spectrum of contentious as well as commercial, strategic, and transactional intellectual property matters, leveraging notable experience navigating complex and often high-profile trademark, patent, brand protection, design, counterfeiting, and other types of litigation for a wide variety of clients before Italian courts. The group also offers clients expertise in Chinese IP law and regularly advises clients from a variety of innovative and creative industries from biotech and pharma to consumer goods and fashion. Important team members include litigator Alberto Contini, who focuses on matters in the tech and electronics spaces, and Michele Papa, whose practice tends toward fashion and luxury goods players. Cecilia Moro is another name to note.
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‘IP Law Galli has a very deep understanding of litigation practices in Italy. They know the ins and outs of the IP courts.’
‘I like them because they know how to think outside the box. They will attempt to tailor a solution for a given situation.'
Key clients
- Amgen Inc
- Atlas Copco BLM S.r.l.
- Barilla G. e R. Fratelli S.p.a.
- Cama 1 S.p.a.
- CheckSum LLC
- Directa Textile Solutions S.r.l.
- EG
- Enel
- G21
- Enologica Vason S.p.a.
- Industriale Chimica S.r.l.
- Jaguar Land Rover Ltd
- Lima Corporate S.p.a.
- L’originale Alfredo All’Augusteo S.r.l.
- Piaggio & C. S.p.a.
- Stada Arzneimittel AG
- Syensqo S.A.
- Vivanta Generics S.r.o.
- Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
- Wirtek S.r.l.
Work highlights
- Assisting Piaggio with strategic choices, contracting and enforcement related to its famous brands, including the "Vespa" brand in all aspects related to the brand stretching from automotive to fashion, from relations with manufacturers to advertising, to agreements with web influencers, and regarding defence against infringement.
- Assisted the University of Parma in a lawsuit surrounding the client's ownership of a patent claiming a new class of antimicrobial peptides involving contract law, patent law and their relationship to academic research.
- Providing ongoing strategic assistance to Bulgari and assisting the company in defending one of its jewellery collections (The Serpenti Collection) by negotiating a co-existence agreement with a major Italian fashion company and starting litigation before the Court of Bologna aimed at protecting one of the designs of the collection against a plastic copy of its renowned shape.
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Cesare Galli, Mariangela Bogni