Italian Supreme Court rules that mere reproduction of Vespa image may amount to counterfeiting
Italian Supreme Court rules that mere reproduction of Vespa image may amount to counterfeiting
In its decision of 17 March 2017 a criminal section of the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) ruled that the crime of counterfeiting within Article 474 of the Italian Criminal Code (codice penale, ICC) can also subsist in the case of mere reproduction of the image of a Vespa without also the reproduction of the registered word mark ‘Vespa’.
Rosati, Eleonora
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1 July 2017
Rosati, Eleonora
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Rosati, Eleonora
(2017)
Italian Supreme Court rules that mere reproduction of Vespa image may amount to counterfeiting.
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 12 (7).
(doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpx080).
Abstract
In its decision of 17 March 2017 a criminal section of the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) ruled that the crime of counterfeiting within Article 474 of the Italian Criminal Code (codice penale, ICC) can also subsist in the case of mere reproduction of the image of a Vespa without also the reproduction of the registered word mark ‘Vespa’.
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Submitted date: 24 March 2017
Accepted/In Press date: 28 March 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 April 2017
Published date: 1 July 2017
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Southampton Law School
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Local EPrints ID: 407522
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/407522
ISSN: 1747-1532
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