INDUSTRIAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Knowledge and comprehension
IP law is made up of a well-structured and organic legal system, within private law, regulating business enterprises’ activities. Such a legal system regards enterprises’ external activities in competition. The course aims at providing the students with a complete knowledge at a basic level over commercial law system.
Ability to put in practice knowledge and comprehension
The knowledge acquired would enable the student with practical skills of the notions and concepts learnt besides with comprehension and skills sufficient to solve practical issues.
The knowledge acquired would also provide students with the ability to communicate clearly and without ambiguity over their conclusions, notions and ratio of regulations, to specialist and non specialist persons. Moreover the course aims at developing the individual learning ability of students enabling them to continue studying and analyzing with a certain degree of autonomy.
Making Judgments Ability
to critically develop interpretative solutions. Ability to focus the critical points of other’s theses.
Communication Skills Ability to carry out a legal opinion in clear and concise terms
Learning Skills Ability
to frame new contents and new rules in a systematic framework of the law governing the matter

Frontal lessons

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

Unfair Competition
The parties; Professional correctness and competitive damage; Competition through confusion; Denigration and appropriation of pegs; the circumstances of art. 2598 n. 3 c.c.; Claims and sanctions; Unfair commercial practices.
The Trademark
Notion and function; The trademark as a sign and the requirements for registration; Acquisition of the right; Use of the trademark; Violation and protection of the right; Vicissitudes of the right; Invalidity and extinction of the right; Collective trademarks; International conventions and the community system; The EU trademark; The non-registered trademark.

Vanzetti-Di Cataldo-Spodiloro, Manuale di diritto industriale, Giuffré, Milano, 2021, da pag. 3 a pag. 328.