Raffaella Gambardella

RAFFAELLA GAMBARDELLA

Raffaella Gambardella

Admitted to Court

Raffaella Gambardella has been practicing as a lawyer for over 25 years, spanning from civil law to libel and intellectual property. She offers contentious and non-contentious assistance.

Languages: Italian, English
Email: raffaella.gambardella@ip-skill.it


Attorney

Raffaella Gambardella graduated in 1988 in law at the LUISS University in Rome, with a graduation paper on intellectual property law. She was admitted in 1993 to the Turin bar.

From 1990 to 2001 she collaborated with the Chair of intellectual property law at the LUISS University, earning a scholarship as a researcher. She subsequently collaborated with the Chair of intellectual property law at the University of Milan.

She is author of several works in intellectual property law, copyright and advertising.

Raffaella has acquired over twenty years’ experience in assisting companies on judicial and extrajudicial matters in the field of intellectual property law, copyright and advertising – including before the Advertising and Antitrust Authority.

Raffaella also assists clients on contentious and non-contentious matters in the field of commercial law (product liability, breach of contract, credit recovery and libel).

Raffaella speaks Italian and fluent English.

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COVID-19 and IP rights

 

The exclusive IP rights conferred by patents could hinder or delay the discovery of life-saving remedies against the virus.

What might happen if this should be the case?

Let’s consider for a moment how Italian national rules are set to balance the fundaments rights at stake (on the one hand, the exclusive rights of IP owners and, on the other hand, the public health and security of citizens), as well as foster the research and technical process for the treatment of the Covid-19 disease.

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IP cases and COVID-19

This article deals with IP cases and COVID-19 emergency in Italy and offers an introspective analysis into IP trials at the time of COVID-19

The Covid-19 emergency is changing the judiciary system, which is now facing one the biggest challenges in the last decades.

The introduction of social distancing rules has triggered a process of “modernization” of the judiciary activities. To that effect, new “digitalized” hearings and other alternative means (i.e. the filing of written notes with the Court a few days before the hrearing) have been introduced in place of physical hearings.

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