Members - Rispoli & Contin

Italian law firm specialising in IP and IT Law

Rispoli & Contin – Studio Legale provides a comprehensive range of IP and IT law services. These cover all areas of patent, trade mark and design law and are structured to ensure full national and international protection. The law firm provides as well domain name, E – Business and data protection legal services, covering several areas of law which regulate online commercial activity.

IP Law Services

Intellectual property rights are vital assets for many types of commercial concern. The law firm advise on trade marks, patents, designs, copyright and related issues, and secure legal protection for our clients' inventions, brands and designs.
The law firm specialises in intellectual property litigation and represents clients in Intellectual Property matters before Italian Courts in the following areas:

Trademark Law
Design Law
Patents & Utility Models Law
Copyright Law
Advertising Law
Know – How Protection
Trade Secret Protection
Unfair Competition.

Our services also include filing and prosecution of trademark and design applications in Italy, in the European Union, as well as throughout the world. We assist clients in maintaining registration of trademarks and design, and we represents them in opposition and cancellation proceedings.

We also assist our clients in drafting many types of agreements such as trademark licenses, software and patent licenses, nondisclosure agreements, consulting agreements, distribution agreements and others.

IT Law Services

In information technology, we provide legal counsel and representation to firms that are actively using the Internet in their growing businesses.

We represents clients in IT law and E-Commerce matters and we commonly handle arbitration proceedings under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) for domain names under the ccTLD ".it" and under the gTLDs ".eu" ".com" ".net" ".org" and others.

We also provide assistance in trademark law applied to the Internet, namely use of a mark as a domain name, linking, cross-licensing, metatags, and keywords matters.

Furthermore, the law firm provides consultancy and assistance in Data Protection matters.