Intellectual Property Rights

Today intellectual property rights protection is increasingly important. The use of original works, whether musical works, literary works, pictorial, graphic and sculptural works, motion pictures works, including the use of new technologies, has massively widened the number of consumers and, results in the necessity for authors to protect their rights.

Intellectual Property Rights

The law firm of Balla & Ciapponi has always been involved in this specific area and is consistently called to advise clients on matters involving the transfer of authorial rights and the drafting of related contracts. Additionally, we can assist on all matters associated with the protection of new works and their commercial use.

In addition to authors, our clients include editors and software companies. We assist these individuals and entities in their relations with national and international public institutions, with cultural associations and with foundations for the acquisition and right to reproduce objects belonging to the artistic and archaeological patrimony.

I. Art and Cultural Property Law | II. Intellectual Property
III. Information Technology Law

I. Art and Cultural Property Law

Balla e Ciapponi has extensive experience in Art and Cultural Property Law.

For over twenty years, we have worked with individuals as well as cultural institutions in the protection and management of artistic patrimony. Our firm keeps clients updated on legal developments involving artistic items, including the possibility of their temporary or lasting transfer and the preservation and restoration of such pieces to assign to private or public collections.

The firm is involved in both advisory and litigation: counseling and advising clients on cases related to large artistic patrimonies. Balla & Ciapponi assists clients in ascertaining and defending the authenticity of artistic items and when necessary, the firm also litigates and seeks judicial remedies on behalf of its clients.

I. Art and Cultural Property Law | II. Intellectual Property
III. Information Technology Law

II. Intellectual Property

Within our firm's corporate practice areas, Balla & Ciapponi provides advice and counsel relative to industrial intellectual property rights:

  • Copyright protection;
  • Examination of the qualifications of inventions in order to file the application with the patent authority;
  • Analysis of the copyright or the patent prior registration;
  • Verification of the novelty of the invention and examination of all the requirements to obtain the protection of the intellectual property rights under national and international law.

I. Art and Cultural Property Law | II. Intellectual Property
III. Information Technology Law

III. Information Technology Law

The advancement of technology has greatly enlarged the possibilities originally associated with existing technologies thereby helping to develop new forms of communication.

For many years, the law firm of Balla & Ciapponi has experience in the legal aspects involving new technologies. On both a national and international level, the firm assists clients in all aspects related to intellectual property right protection, including advising on the associated contractual issues (transfer, licensing) the associated disputes, and advising on the management and protection of the corporations' know-how.

In addition, the firm can assist on the protection of data banks and on their commercial use.

I. Art and Cultural Property Law | II. Intellectual Property
III. Information Technology Law

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