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Key practice areas
Intellectual property
Patent disputes
Trade mark disputes
Trade mark
Patent
Firm overview

Headed and founded in 2004 by Dr. Professor Cesare Galli, (Full Professor of IP Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Parma), the firm operates mainly in the field of Intellectual Property law with a specific experience in Pharmaceutical, Biotech and TMT Patents and Fashion & Luxury litigations.

Having its main office in Milan and branch offices in Brescia and Parma, the firm came into being as a boutique firm, highly specialized in IP law, Business Law and Competition/Antitrust. The Firm is characterized by the personal imprint of its founder, and has maintained strong reputation by combining it with a firmly market-oriented approach aimed at enhancing the procedural instruments in order to reach positive results in the shortest terms. Professor Galli has also been personally involved in the process that led Italy to taking part in the Unified Patent Court Agreement in 2013 and in the Enhanced Cooperation on the Unitary Patent in 2015 and flanked the Italian delegates in the drafting of the Rules of Procedure (RoP).

The Firm clients include large foreign industrial groups working in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food and fashion sectors and Italian firms operating in the most cutting edge fields such as new technologies as well as TMT, mechanics and electro mechanics industries.

The firm displays a special competence both in patent and trademark litigation and out of court field strategy (such as license agreements and international transfers of technology).

 

Network Memberships:
AIPPI, LES, INDICAM, AMCHAM

Practice Areas & Sector Specialisations

Sector Expertise:

 

  • Electronics & Semiconductors
  • Fashion & Luxury Goods
  • ICT & Software
  • Life Sciences & Chemistry
  • Pharmaceuticals
Address:
Via Lamarmora 40
Milano
20122
Tel:+39 0254123094 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://www.iplawgalli.it
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Overview

IP Law Galli is admired on the Italian market for the quality of its advice. The firm has extensive experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, technology, media, and the telecoms sectors. The firm’s lawyers provide judicial litigation and extrajudicial consultancy services concerning patents, alongside trade mark litigation and licensing services.  

Notable patent practitioners: Cesare Galli and Mariangela Bogni. 

Notable practitioners: Alberto Contini and Giulia Galimberti.

Testimonials

2026

"They are outstanding in their track records. If you have a very desperate case, you grant them the power of attorney for litigation in order to have a chance for a favorable outcome."

"They are a boutique law firm, so they can customize their services to the need of the client."

 

2025

"They are very competent."

"They know everything. They have the know-how on IP."

"They really know the ins and outs of the Italian patent system."

"The firm of Professor Galli is highly reputed for [IP] litigation in Italy. We know his extreme responsiveness and effectiveness in dealing with this type of litigation."

"I appreciate the perspicacity and strategic ability to manage litigation as well as the pragmatic approach to finding alternative solutions."

Linked Reviews
Trade mark

Case highlights include trade mark litigation for a food processing company in three simultaneous cases. It also achieved monetary damages for a client before the Court of Appeal of Brescia.

Patent

The practice assisted a bioprinting client in a lawsuit brought by a competitor on a trade secrets pretext. It also acted for a biotechnology firm in description proceedings in a patent revocation case.

Intellectual property

The firm created a software contract to safeguard copyright for a consultancy firm. It also assisted a client in litigation pertaining to contractual violation before the Court of Rome in the energy sector.

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