MILAN LOCAL DIVISION Law and Practice Contributed by: Vittorio Cerulli Irelli, Lorenzo Battarino and Daniel Borgogni, Trevisan & Cuonzo
Trevisan & Cuonzo is the largest IP practice in Italy and one of the largest boutique IP prac - tices in Europe. With 11 partners and over 40 lawyers, the firm covers all aspects of IP law and practice and works with clients of all sizes – from start-ups to multinationals – in all fields of technology. The firm has already been in - volved in a number of cases before the UPC in the Central and Local Divisions in Milan, and
its lawyers have written and spoken widely on topics related to the development and practice of the UPC and its jurisdiction. As a European firm with a global reach, Trevisan & Cuonzo has three decades of experience in conducting and co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional litigation. Its cross-border teams regularly work alongside lawyers in other jurisdictions in multinational cases.
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Vittorio Cerulli Irelli is a partner at Trevisan & Cuonzo and heads the Rome office. An expert litigator with 18 years of courtroom experience, Vittorio joined the firm in 2008. He has
Lorenzo Battarino is a counsel at Trevisan & Cuonzo and a UPC representative. His professional experience includes advising a number of multinational pharmaceutical companies in
successfully represented many multinational clients before the Italian and European Union courts and agencies in a broad range of high-profile cases with an international dimension, including the first case ever filed before the Milan LD of the Unified Patent Court. Vittorio has published extensively and repeatedly provided expert opinions on Italian law to the German, Dutch and UK Courts. His contentious matters have spanned across a wide range of technologies and industries.
complex multi-jurisdictional litigation concerning patent rights over breakthrough medicinal products as well as representing clients in multiple patent infringement cases regarding electronics, mechanical and chemical patents. He has already been involved in several UPC cases and, in particular, he represented a client at the very first Interim Conference (in May 2024) and Oral Hearing (in September 2024) held by the UPC Local Division of Milan. Lorenzo joined Trevisan & Cuonzo in 2013.
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