Cesare Galli

Professor Galli's professional experience includes important litigation, both in Italy and abroad, relating to all aspects of Intellectual Property Law, in particular trademarks, domain names, patents, designs, PDOs and PGIs. He has often handled international and cross-border matters.

Cesare Galli is a lawyer and Chair of IP Law at the University of Parma.

He has advised and assisted clients in the most important IP Italian cases in the last 25 years. In 1999 he obtained the first ruling in the field of biotech patents, in 2004 the first ruling on the validity of a computer implemented invention patent, and between 2005 and 2012 some of the most innovative and progressive measures for the protection of trade secrets and well-known trademarks in particular against look-alikes, including a ruling of the ECJ, which forced the Italian Government to protect the industrial design works more effectively. He is the author of an impressive number of publications on all aspects of IP law, among which there is the largest commentary on all national and Community IP Law provisions. He is currently a member of the European Counterfeiting and Piracy Observatory launched within DG Markt of the European Commission.