Stefania Bergia

Stefania is a partner in our Milan office IP practice. She assists clients, including on a pan-European level, on a extensive range of judicial and extra-judicial matters of IP law, including patents, trademarks and domain names, trade secrets, appellations of origin and geographical indications, industrial design, copyright and related rights, unfair competition, and arbitration.

Stefania has a longstanding relationship with the University of Parma, where over the years she has taught a course entitled "Legislation and Patents - Chemical and Biotech Patents and GMO Legislation". She teaches for postgraduate courses, including those held by the Italian School for the Judiciary (Scuola Superiore della Magistratura), and is a lecturer for the annual "Industrial Property - Patents" course organised by the Polytechnic University of Milan as well as for Just Legal Services' post-graduate courses on IP matters. She was also recently involved in an online course organised by Harvard University.

Stefania has presented papers at conferences and authored publications in the IP field.

Stefania holds a PhD in IP Law from the University of Parma.

Stefania is a registered representative before the Unified Patent Court (UPC), which became operational on 1 June 2023.