Studio Legale Crespi

Studio Legale Crespi’s fields of expertise are intellectual and industrial property law, and competition law, in all their specifications. In fact, Studio Crespi provides assistance in:

• unfair competition (slavish imitation, look alike, trade disparagement, misappropriation of qualities, misleading and comparative advertising, below cost sales, employee poaching, etc.);
• trademarks, appellation of origin and geographical indications;
• patents and models;
• trade secrets;
• food law – labelling, nutrition claims, PDOs and PGIs
• copyright;
• design rights;
• non-competition agreements and antitrust law;
• domain names, company or association denominations;
• Internet and new media;
• personality rights;
• advertising law;
• entertainment law;
• licensing; etc.

With regard to these topics, Studio Legale Crespi provides a wide assistance, both extrajudicial (council on the solution of specific problems; conduction of negotiation; drafting of licensing, confidential and non-competition agreement; advise on trademarks and models registration as well as council on the rational management of the related portfolio) and judicial.
About the latter, Studio Crespi grants defence in civil courts (up to the Corte di Cassazione), penal courts (in partnership with lawyers outside the Firm), arbitrations and assistance dealing with the Autorità Garante per la Concorrenza e il Mercato and the Istituto di Autodisciplina Pubblicitaria.
Among Studio Crespi’s clients there are small, medium and multinational companies, Italian or foreign, and creative people interested in protecting their ideas. For these clients, Studio Crespi handled varied cases, related to food, beverage, fashion, perfumery and cosmetics trademarks; imitation of the look of shoes, stationery, convenience goods; design protection within the context of licensing relationship; distinctive signs of editorial products; TV formats; movies; music publishing agreements; protection of inventions in many different fields, such as chemistry, construction, electronics, energy, closing systems; protection of confidential information (chemical formulas, clients or suppliers lists); disputes related to the execution of licensing agreements concerning the audio-visual media; protection of the image of famous people.
Studio Crespi has handled disputes between members of associations and professional firms also with regard to the ownership and the use of distinctive signs.
Although it handles a lot of judicial cases, Studio Legale Crespi believes that the judicial one is not the only way to resolve problems and that, most times, preventive activities (such as a rational approach to the registration of trademarks and the application of patents and a careful and strategic negotiation of the agreements) can help in avoiding the costs of a trial. Studio Crespi also believes that a lawsuit should be strategically taken care of considering the opportunity of settlement agreements.
Thanks to the experience reached and their deep knowledge of civil and commercial law, the Studio Crespi attorneys can provide to their recurring clients extrajudicial and judicial assistance with regard to the main legal aspects of a company’s life (commercial agreements, contractual and extra-contractual liability, companies’ relations).