Contact information
Awards
- WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals – 2024
- Who’s Who Legal – 2023
- WIPR Leaders 2023
- WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals – 2023
- Who’s Who Legal – 2022
Skills
Copyrights, Design, Domain names, Patents, Trademarks,Professional registers
Member of the Rome Bar Association
Member of the New York Bar Association
European Trademark and Design Attorney
Professional experience
Laura in Giurisprudenza, Un. La Sapienza di Roma
Master in Diritto Comunitario, Istituto di Studi Europei “Alcide De Gasperi”, Roma
LL. M, Master of Laws, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
After a first experience in the late 80’s as Chief of the Legal Secretary of the Central Inspectorate for Fraud Repression and subsequent Master of Laws (LLM) at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as admission to the New York Bar, he started in the mid 90’s his IP-related activity with SIB, soon becoming a Partner thereof. In the second half of the 2000s he was in Silicon Valley with Intel Corporation, where, as Senior Attorney, he managed, among other things, some of Intel’s most important brands worldwide, such as INTEL INSIDE and PENTIUM. Back in private practice, he joined, as of Counsel, De Simone & Partners before joining Bugnion in May 2018. He is also at WIPO Panelist and is frequently invited to speak at conferences and congresses of major IP organizations such as INTA, ECTA, Marques and AIPPI. He has been recognized for years as one of the best IP lawyers in Who’s Who Legal, The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals and Global IP Stars. Fabio has been nominated one of the Leaders 2018 by WIPR.
Associations
ECTA, INTA, Marques
Languages
English
Publications
Amicus Curiae briefs of ECTA, INTA and MARQUES agree on “NIGHTWATCH” approach to conversion of EUTMs
“Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus” [even Homer nods]. So why shouldn’t the GC?
Dangers unknown? A trademark may cause liabilities greater than you think.
Wake up and do something! Acquiescence explained.
Gone With The Wind? The GC just cannot let the UK go.
Mission impossible. Register the name of a State as a trademark
The GC gives the Moon Boot the boot
A “creative” approach to likelihood of association. Is the GC trying to rewrite the laws?
OK. Everyone knows MESSI. But Miley Cyrus?
GREAT EXPECTATIONS…. OFTEN DISAPPOINTED
“SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK”….. Horror movie? No – General Court of the EU on colour combinations!
The “allure” of a famous place as a potential absolute ground of refusal?
Phonetic similarity, even to a high degree, is not enough to cause confusion, the General Court says
“One, No One, and One Hundred thousand”. The Continuing Unfathomable Nature of Bad Faith
Should different meanings outweigh the similarities of non-distinctive elements?
Green is the new black. But in 2003 that was not the case, says the CJEU
Colour trademarks: being unusual isn’t enough. Glaxo’s Purple
Is the CJEU finally reconsidering LOC for weak marks? PRIMA v. PRIMART
ITALY: New Legislation on Ambush Marketing
An increasing value for freedom of expression in trademark law?
Now we know it for a fact: amphoras are not usually made of glass.
Der Grüne Punkt: CJEU says yes to genuine use of the collective “recycling packaging” trademark
Evocation of geographical terms of a PDO/PGI. What elements should be taken into consideration?
A Paler Shade of Orange: A Distinction Without a Difference?
Clarity and precision: who decides what they mean?
Bad faith may be found also for different goods or services, says the Court of Justice
Free speech and trademarks. Could it happen here?
Disclaimers, a thing of the past
Disclosure of Community Designs. One out of the various angles
Scooters and cars, are artworks in the eyes of the beholder?
Amphorae are not made of glass: really?
Parallel imports of pharmaceuticals: rebranding or not rebranding?