Nunziante Magrone routinely represents clients from the fashion, automotive, life sciences, and food and beverage industries in complex, often cross-border litigation proceedings related to patent, trademark and design infringement, as well as alleged violation of trade secrets and know-how. Founding partner Niccolò Ferretti is regularly mandated by clients in the fashion, furniture and mechanical engineering sectors for his expertise in litigation, while Pietro Ilardi is noted for his specialisation in sports law. The team also includes business contracts disputes expert Luca Ferrari and Emanuela Gaia Zapparoli, who regularly assists clients with the enforcement and protection of intellectual property rights before all Italian Courts.
Testimonials
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- ‘They have a great Intellectual Property team, proactive and accurate in their legal advice, able to anticipate and identify probable issues that may arise. They can handle everything right away. Prompt and straight to the point answers together with a business-oriented attitude render their services very precious.'
- ‘Head of the IP department Niccolò Ferretti is an excellent litigator, very creative and always capable of finding useful arguments to convince the Court. His briefs are precise, concise and very effective.’
‘A real team with great problem solving skills and the goal to meet specific client needs.’
'A solid IP offering that is attractive and will more than likely stand the test of time.'
‘Niccolò Ferretti is excellent - a clear communicator and always very pragmatic and realistic in the assessment of possible disputes. A credit to his clients and a contact to keep in touch with.’
‘Nunziante e Magrone is a firm that is well specialised in intellectual property matters, especially litigation and disputes. The people are very smart, they have several skills and they are easy to work with because of their friendly and result-oriented approach.'
'Niccolò Ferretti is very smart and has a practical approach to work. Emanuela Gaia Zapparoli is a very skilled person and her approach to the business is absolutely oriented to the result.’
‘The strengths and key capabilities of the team are the high professionalism and competence in the management of the practice in every phase; the working method with which it analyses the arguments of the counterparty to elaborate a clear and effective defense, and the ability to draw up the memory of appearance and subsequent pleadings, with a clean, well-articulated and stylistically perfect technique.'
Key clients
- Bonacina1889 S.r.l.
- Croce Rossa Italiana ADV
- Eufoton S.r.l.
- Herbolea Bio-tech S.r.l.
- International Brand Consulting SAGL
- Rinaldi Group S.r.l.
- Sildeha Swiss S.A.
Work highlights
- Assisted EUFOTON in a patent infringement and invalidity action pending before the Italian Supreme Court.
- Assisted the RINALDI GROUP, providing legal advice on IP matters regarding its trademark portfolio, in various international TM opposition procedures, especially before Chinese and EU intellectual property offices.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Niccolò Ferretti, Pietro Ilardi, Luca Ferrari