ITALY Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Giovanni F Casucci 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. 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.
Author
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
firms, advising entities from both the private and public sector. He has been involved in a
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