Industrial and IT law

BFP has specialist expertise in contracts for industrial property rights, copyright and know-how, and in disputes relative to trademarks, patents and intellectual property rights, particularly in the Internet and IT sector.
More specifically, the firm’s know-how in industrial law covers:

• industrial and intellectual property rights
• patents and copyright, providing advice for registration and litigation representation in the event of breach
• distinguishing marks (trademarks, place and origin indications, domain names)
• unfair competition disputes
• domestic and international arbitration and litigation in the aforementioned sectors

In terms of Information Technology law, BFP’s partner Professor Carlo Rossello published the first Italian scientific contributions in the matter of IT contracts, software protection and e-commerce. 
It has built on the back of this scientific experience with legal practice, both in litigation (software protection, database and multimedia disputes; domain name conflicts), and in advising on contracts in the IT and e-commerce sector as a whole.
More specifically, BFP’S know-how in IT law covers:

• software protection and relative litigation
• IT contracts (software development, software licence, distribution, leasing; software escrowagreements; facility management; IT outsourcing)
• contracts and liabilities of Internet Service Providers
• e-commerce (website development; access and hosting; control of compliance with EU law on electronic commerce)
• know-how and/or technology transfer contracts;  N.D.A.
• IT Procurement contracts
• all legal issues connected to digital technologies 
• domestic and international arbitration and litigation in the aforementioned sectors