In the event of a road accident involving injuries that can heal in less than forty days, the person causing the accident cannot be charged with the offence of personal road injuries under Article 590 bis of the Italian criminal code, but can still be charged with the less serious offence of personal injuries through…
Already ranked in the Europe Guide of Chambers and Partners, Zunarelli – Studio Legale Associato has now been ranked for the first time in the British publisher’s Global Guide. The Chambers’ guides published since 1990 analyze the market of legal services based on the feedback of Clients and Colleagues. Corporations resort to these guides when…
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Andrea Piras of Zunarelli – Studio Legale Associato has been interviewed by Trieste’s newspaper Il Piccolo regarding a dispute started by a well-known clothing brand before the European Union Intellectual Property Office between Zara, a leading Spanish fashion retailer, against a coffee roasting family business that exports coffee blends. Reason: “name too similar”. Read the…
On 25th May 2018 European regulation no. 2016/679 will become finally applicable also in Italy. The Regulation concerns the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data. Among the main changes introduced by the European Legislator there are more clear rules regarding information and…
The “monitoring” of employees has long been debated by Italian Courts and Scholars in order to interpret and update a law whose original formulation lies in a specific timeframe characterized by great social, cultural and politic conflicts, a context that is also extremely distant from the technological culture which has swept the current labour market….
Logistics processes are increasingly affected by the introduction of technological devices that are able to monitor the flow of goods, to check straight away the efficiency of the organizational system, and to track every single stage of the company production cycle, in order to have proof of it in a database. Recent headlines have…
The defendant threatened to kill the injured party. Despite the evidence of a threat, the Justice of the Peace declared the offence extinguished. In fact, in Italy since August, in the event of offenses prosecutable upon a private complaint, after having heard the parties and the injured party, the Judge can declare the extinguishment…
As a result of the application filed by the Firm, the Justice of the Peace of Trieste ordered the immediate return of the driving license that had been suspended by an order of the Prefect to an individual who had been involved in a car accident. In fact, the judge deemed that the findings in…
The trademark registration of a mark used to identify goods and services is always recommended in order to strengthen its protection. However, there are cases of protection of unregistered trademarks, within the limits of the so-called prior use. In fact, the holder of a de facto ‒i.e. unregistered‒ trademark, who can demonstrate the constant and…