ITALY Law and Practice Contributed by: Giovanni F Casucci, Matteo Casucci, Serena Spadavecchia and Alice Niccoli, EY Tax & Law
EY Tax & Law founded its Milan IP practice in April 2019 with the arrival of Daniele Caneva and Elena Carpani, together with a team of 11 professionals, from CREA Avvocati Associati. In July 2021, Giovanni F Casucci, previously part- ner in Dentons Europe, where he was the head of the European patent litigation department, and his four-people team joined the practice. Today, the department boasts a team of 18 and has a strong reputation in the Italian IP market
for the added value services that it provides to clients through the integrated work with other EY legal, tax and technology departments. Gio- vanni and his team have a wealth of experience in IP litigation matters, dealing with important cross-border cases. They have also been pio- neers in applying the pre-trial evidence collec- tion orders via Regulation (EC) No 1206/01 (cur- rently replaced by Regulation (EU) 2020/1783) in cross-border patent litigation cases.
Authors
Giovanni F Casucci is a partner at EY Tax & Law, Milan, Italy, with over 30 years’ experience in IP law. Before joining EY, Giovanni served as partner in several top-tier international law
Matteo Casucci is a senior associate in the IP litigation practice at EY Tax & Law, Milan, Italy. He has been practising as an advocate in the Venice and, currently, Milan Bar Associations
firms, advising entities from both the private and public sector. He has been involved in a number of European landmark cases, such as Occlutech, Flos, Diesel and Chapter 4 Supreme. In addition to being a lawyer, he is a specialist IP lecturer and as co-director of several courses at the Politecnico di Milano, including the highly reputed UPC European Patent Litigation course.
for 12 years. Matteo is a lawyer with over 16 years of advisory experience in the fields of intellectual property law, having gained experience at Italian IP boutiques, renowned European IP law firms and large international law networks. He assists small and medium companies as well as multinational corporations on patents, know-how, designs, trade marks, copyrights and IP-related unfair competition, with a specific focus on food, home furniture, fashion, software and engineering industries.
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