Francesca specialises in IP litigation, unfair competition and internet law, acting on behalf of national and international clients for trademarks, designs, patents and copyright. She has also developed an extensive practice of local and international clients in the negotiation, drafting and revising of commercial contracts and licensing, particularly in the field of cosmetics, fashion and luxury goods.
Francesca has also developed significant experience in advertising law, both at the private and public level, which entails enforcing clients' rights before the Private Advertising self regulating Authority (the Giurì), as well as the Competition Authority (the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato), which has jurisdiction over misleading and comparative advertising.
The advertising cases Francesca handles on behalf of her local and international clients mainly deal with cosmetics and food supplement goods, and she has acquired a sound knowledge of the national and European cosmetics and food supplement laws and regulations.
She graduated with honours from the University of Turin Law School in 2000, receiving a special award from Turin University for the best law dissertation of the year and for which she also received a Scholarship from the Italian Manager Association Fund, as well as the Optime Award from the Enterprise Association of Turin. She was admitted to the (Turin) Bar in 2005). In 2006 she gained a Post-graduate Masters at the Max Planck Institute of Munich in Germany in Intellectual Property.
Publications:
She has authored commentaries on intellectual property decisions, rendered by Italian Courts which were published in the Italian Law Review "Giurisprudenza Italiana".
Finally, she contributed to the Treatise on "The Law of Merchandising and character licensing: merchandising law and practice", edited by Thomson, New York, 2005, updating it with the Italian legislative amendments and case-law developments. She is also a regular contributor for the Italian group to the AIPPI newsletter.
