Intellectual Property

Intellectual and Industrial Property

IP assets development, management, and protection represent a constant challenge for companies therefore we are at your side in protecting and enhancing your intellectual property.

We take care of contractual, extrajudicial, judicial and any other aspect concerning industrial property rights.

Our approach is practical and concrete, aimed at making your IP assets a real instrument of competitiveness in the global market.

Our assistance also aims at providing suitable tools to enable you to decide on how to best safeguard your investments in R&D.

Our team is made up of experienced and highly qualified professionals with a deep understanding of the most innovative technological sectors. This means not only protecting your rights but also understanding the dynamics of your sector and the challenges you face daily, so that you can focus on developing your business.

Copyright and related rights

Our professionals have a solid experience in protecting copyright on a wide range of creative works. This includes not only traditional sectors such as publishing, cinematography , music, photography, architecture and visual arts but also software and rights related to new technologies.

Contractual matters

We assist our clients in every stage of commercial agreements drafting, negotiation, and execution with regard to the exploitation and development of IP rights:

Assignment, licensing and development agreements;
IT, software, and technology transfer agreements;
Agreements in advertising, marketing and promotional sector;
Distribution agreements.

IP Litigation and Unfair Competition

We advise you in litigation in order to defend your IP rights, providing support before all judicial, administrative (UIBM and EUIPO) and independent authorities. Our expertise includes patents, utility models, trademarks, designs, copyright, as well as misleading and comparative advertising. We also represent clients before the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

Our extensive experience regards also unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, and transfer of employees.

Trade secrets and know-how

We assist companies in defining guidelines concerning know-how protection and trade secrets misappropriation cases.

Advertising Law

Our firm advises clients in defining right away the advertising campaigns so that to minimize the potential risk of third-party rights violation. We also deal with advertising agreements by drafting and negotiating .

Our professionals support clients in proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority concerning misleading advertising and before the Giurì dell’Autodisciplina Pubblicitaria (Advertising Self-Regulation Authority). Moreover, we offer assistance in judicial proceedings related to alleged unfair advertising practices.

Trademark Portfolio Management

Tonucci & Partners provides assistance in managing complex trademark portfolios, aiming to enhance your rights and protect your ideas through the following services:

Priority searches and registration opinions;
Filing, prosecution, and registration of Italian, European, international and foreign trademarks;
Trademark surveillance, oppositions and cancellation actions against third-party trademarks;
Management of trademark portfolio deadlines;
Domain name reallocation procedures;
Customs monitoring and anti-counterfeiting measures.

Due Diligence

We provide specific assistance in acquisition context or sale of company shares or businesses by supporting the verification process of any critical issues related to IP rights.