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UPC, Milan Central Division: the importance of selecting invalidity attacks

The court invites the claimant to select those attacks it considers the strongest and to rank them in order of importance. Once the attacks so selected are found to be unfounded, the Court considers it justified not to examin the remaining attacks. This places substantial responsibility on the parties as regards the selection and prioritisation of their objections.

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The Milan IP Court on Trademark Rights Infringement in Selective Distribution

By order dated 3 March 2025, the Specialist Business Section of the Milan Court granted the application for interim injunctive relief under Article 131 of the Italian Industrial Property Code and Article 700 of the Code of Civil Procedure filed by Chanel and its Italian distributor, prohibiting the sale of the maison’s perfumes inside the stores of the defendants, two well-known retail chains specializing in general consumer products for personal and household care.

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The Court of Cassation on the infringement of the Rolex designs

In Judgment No. 24006/2023, the Court of Cassation dismissed the appeal of Swift Company S.r.l. against Rolex S.A. and Rolex Italia S.p.A., which had accused it of producing and marketing bracelets purportedly inspired by Rolex watch bezels and bearing the MGT sign, allegedly confusable with Rolex's GMT Master trademark.

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Faithful reproduction of model cars and trademark rights: the Ferrari case

The affixing of a sign which is identical to a trade mark registered, inter alia, in respect of motor vehicles to scale models of that make of vehicle in order to reproduce those vehicles faithfully is not intended to provide an indication as to a characteristic of those scale models, but is merely an element in the faithful reproduction of the original vehicles

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