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Close to our clients remotely. In compliance with the sanitary rules to contrast the COVID-19 emergency, De Simone & Partners does not stop and confirms to be active and to regularly comply with all the activities on behalf of its clients.
Italian Patent and Trademark Office
The Italian Patent and Trademark Office suspended the terms expiring between 9 March and 3 April 2020 with the exception of the peremptory terms of the opposition to trademark registration procedure, referred to in Article 176 of Italian Industrial Property Code (IIPC), and of the notified appeals, referred to in Article 147, paragraph 1, of IIPC. There is no need for specific requests from the interested parties. Once the suspension period is over, the terms start to run again for the remaining part.
Starting dates and deadlines of some of UIBM incentives have been postponed
Marchi+3 (for trademarks): new starting date for sending applications is 6 May 2020 at 9am (instead of 30 March 2020)
Disegni+4 (for designs): new starting date for sending applications is 22 April 2020 at 9am (after being already postponed from 27 February to 19 March)
Proof of Concept 2020 (valorization of IPRs owned by universities and research centers): the deadline (expiration date for sending applications) has been postponed to 20 April 2020 at 12pm (after being already postponed from 27 February to 19 March)
Court proceedings
All civil and criminal hearings scheduled between March 9 and 22 have been adjourned and will be re- scheduled to a date after March 22, 2020.
All procedural deadlines for civil and criminal proceedings are suspended until March 22 and are automatically postponed after such date.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any clarification.