Contact information
Awards
- Leaders League 2024 – Trademark Prosecution
- WTR 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals – 2024
- IP STAR 2024
- Who’s Who Legal – 2023
- WIPR Leaders 2023
Skills
Copyrights, Design, Domain names, Trademarks,Professional registers
Trademark Attorney
Member of the Association of Industrial Property Consultants since 1996
European Trademark Attorney
European Design Attorney
Professional experience
Graduated in Law with top marks and, after qualifying as a lawyer, specialized in the law and economics of the European Union. After a short period at Legimark in Rome and in the Alicante office of a well-known English firm, he joined Bugnion’s Milan office in 2005. Assists leading Italian and international clients in creating, managing and defending trademark and design portfolios and with the relative enforcement, especially in the customs field.
He is a partner and since 2018 has sat on the Board of Directors at Bugnion. Simone has been nominated one of the Leaders 2018 by WIPR. He is on the WTR 1000 list of recommended individuals for Italy and was nominated as an IP STAR by Managing IP.
Partner at Bugnion.
Associations
Member of INTA - International Trademark Association
Member of MARQUES
Languages
English
Spanish
Publications
Victory for Ferrero in Tic Tac shape mark case ITALY Legal
Azioni amministrative di nullità e decadenza: come funziona
Le nuove azioni amministrative di decadenza e nullità avanti all’UIBM: vantaggi e svantaggi
The New Admininstrative Revocation and Invaliditiy actions in Italy: main features
Challenging times: anti-counterfeiting in the age of covid-19
Inter Miami FC vs. Inter Milan FC. L’incubo della sovraimpressione televisiva.
Implementing EU directives. A country approach to EU authoritative directions
All in the name: 101 ways to avoid having a weak mark
Enforcement in Italy: legal peculiarities and effectiveness of IP protection
Licensing in Italy: how to prove a non-written agreement
NAVIGATING THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF THE ITALIAN FILING SYSTEM
Navigating the idiosyncrasies of the Italian filing system
ITALY: ANTI-COUNTERFEITING RAID NETS ORGANISED CRIMINALS
THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN COMPARATIVE ADVERTISING AND UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW
REGISTRATION IS JUST ONE POSSIBILITY
THE BENEFITS OF AN ADJUSTABLE REGIME
A NEW ‘TIME TO MARKET’ APPROACH
SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVES TO CIVIL PROTECTION
WHEN COMMERCIAL SPEECH BECOMES UNLAWFUL
THE PROTECTION OF FASHION THROUGH DESIGN LAW
A SUCCESSFUL BEGINNING FOR ITALY’S NEW OPPOSITION SYSTEM
FROM THE FOOTBALL STADIUM TO THE OPERA HOUSE
THE TRUTH IS NOT ENOUGH: CASES OF COMPARATIVE ADVERTISING IN ITALY
PHARMACEUTICAL MARKS IN ITALY: OVERCOMING WEAKNESS
UIBM SLOWLY BUT SURELY IMPROVES REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
PUBLICITY RIGHTS AND FAMOUS NAMES IN ITALY
POLICING VERY MUCH IN FASHION IN ITALY
ITALIAN LAW PROVIDES BROADER PROTECTION TO WELL-KNOWN AND FAMOUS MARKS
ENFORCEMENT OF TRADEMARK RIGHTS