ITALY Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Giovanni F Casucci EY Tax & Law EY Tax & Law founded its IP practice in April 2019 with the arrival of Daniele Caneva and Ele - na Carpani, together with a team of 11 profes - sionals, from CREA Avvocati Associati. In July 2021, Giovanni F Casucci, previously a partner at 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 can provide 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, Chapter 4 Supreme. In addition to being a lawyer, he is a specialist IP lecturer and 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 a partner at 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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