Italy

Firm overview

The Simmons & Simmons international IP team offers the specialist expertise of a boutique IP practice complemented by the full service offering of a major international firm. We are well known in the market for our high-calibre clients and involvement in many of the leading IP cases and transactions, both in the UK and internationally.

Our IP practice, comprising litigation, prosecution and transactional expertise, for both brands/trade mark and patents matters, is one of the only international firms that provide the full suite of IP services from one trusted source – a significant differentiator in the legal market.

We boast an extremely deep and strong bench. Consisting of over 100 fee earners internationally, our IP team has a presence across EMEA (in Belgium, China, Dubai, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, The Netherlands), the UK and Asia.

Known for our expertise in the life sciences, fintech and technology sectors, we leverage our in-depth industry knowledge developed over our 120+ year history to provide the best advice to the most sophisticated clients. The majority of our patent litigators, attorneys and transactional IP lawyers have technical backgrounds, including advanced degrees and scientific research experience, giving our clients the advantage of market leading legal advisors who also understand their complex and cutting-edge inventions.

Firm overview

Established in 2020, GR Legal is the result of a merger of two law firms that have been operating for more than ten years in the field of intellectual property.

GR Legal has extensive IP litigation experience in the Italian courts as well as in the European Courts. GR Legal professionals regularly handle proceedings before the administrative Italian and EU authorities. The patent lawyers of GR Legal are UPC representatives. The firm often deals with Italian proceedings involving parallel actions in other jurisdictions related to pharmaceuticals and biotech, chemicals, electronic and mechanical patents, as well as copyright, trademarks and distinctive signs, designs, unfair competition, in the most diverse industrial and commercial sectors.

The firm is also well known for its expertise in disputes involving software and trade secrets.

GR Legal has extensive knowledge of out-of-court matters, and namely the negotiation and drafting of contractual agreements with an IP focus. The firm is often involved in large-cap M&A transactions in relation to IP aspects.

GR Legal lawyers provide assistance in data protection matters and regulatory matters for the life sciences sector.

The diverse team of professionals and the presence of offices in the main hubs for IP in Italy allow the firm to deliver fast and accurate services to its clients.

Firm overview

Trevisan & Cuonzo, established in 1993, is one of the leading independent Italian law firms working with some of the most technologically advanced and innovative businesses and industry leaders around the globe.
The firm delivers client focused, industry specific, commercially aligned legal expertise covering a wide range of industrial sectors including electronics, chemical, automotive, food and nutrition, life sciences, telecommunications, media and entertainment, information technology and sports.
Trevisan & Cuonzo has established a commanding reputation both domestically and internationally for its success and in-depth business and industry knowledge in intellectual property, commercial and product liability litigation.
Intellectual property represents the core of Trevisan & Cuonzo. Our lawyers offer strategic and commercial advice on the identification, procurement and exploitation of IP rights for both offensive and defensive purposes before the Italian and European Courts.
Trevisan & Cuonzo is formed by a group of lawyers committed to excellence in the practice of law with the highest ethical standards and operates as a single independent partnership.
The firm has a network of offices in Milan, Rome, Parma and Bari.

Firm overview

Jacobacci & Partners has 95 professionals in 13 offices in 3 countries in Europe (Italy, Spain, and France), supported by 300 paralegals and administration staff.

Our team of highly specialized professionals manage a portfolio of around 120,000 brands for clients of all types: we provide assistance in all areas of brand management, ranging from registration of a company logo to fighting against counterfeiting on a global scale. We work with the client to build a strategy that aims to correctly value, protect and defend their intellectual property rights. IP professionals in the firm’s trademark department have specialties in fashion and cosmetic industries, food, automotive, mechanical, pharmaceutical and agriculture sectors, to cite a few.

Jacobacci & Partners manages over 100,000 patents across a wide variety of subject matter, from mechanics to electronics and software, from industrial and pharmaceutical chemistry to biotechnologies and nanotechnologies.  We represent clients in the filing of patents at the national, European and international level and have been involved in complex patent litigation for over 140 years dating back to an infringement action concerning Edison’s light bulb.

The Local Business Development Team is composed of a selected group of trademark and patent attorneys having principal business activity in the small and local regions of Italy, France and Spain, with a client portfolio mainly devoted to SMEs. The aim of the team is to collect and share best practices for assisting the SMEs in the local regions and to foster business development in those areas with the aim to share inside the entire Jacobacci group such best practices among the colleagues.

The firm’s code of ethics is regularly updated, respecting and enhancing the concept of diversity through its diversity policy, which ensures all employees are treated equally with regard to diversity and inclusion. With a female CEO, and many women in central roles, we cannot fail to be a company projected towards inclusion and ever greater gender equality.

Numerous corporate social initiatives have been set up in view of a company policy that harmonizes economic objectives with the social and environmental ones of the reference territory, with the aim of preserving the environmental, social and human heritage for present and future generations. These initiatives relate to the quality, reliability and safety of the product, but also to the safeguard of the environment and health and energy saving, according to a management approach that considers not only strong economic results, but also the wider impact that the company produces, through its work, on society and the environment.

In order to improve working conditions and create a better place and working environment for everyone, the leadership of Jacobacci & Partners has launched the JforYou project starting in January 2023. This project represents an organic and continuous plan, comprising concrete initiatives, dedicated to all people working in our company, with the aim of improving the work environment and promoting a better work-life balance.

Network Memberships
INTA, ECTA, GRUR, PTMG, MARQUES, AIPPI, FICPI, AUTM, LES, LESI, INDICAM, Union des Fabricants