lunedì 09/10/2023 • 06:00
Last July the Italian Parliament issued a law which introduced amendments to the Italian Industrial Property Code. Law 102/23, whose adoption is part of the “Strategy guidelines on intellectual property” for 2021-2023. The reform, which entered into force on the 10th of August 2023, apart from having introduced amendments concerning procedural and administrative aspects, has adopted changes which are of immediate interest for IP right holders.
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The following is a description of the most relevant aspects of the changes introduced to the Italian Industrial Property Code by the recently adopted Law n. 102/23.
New regime of ownership of inventions developed by researchers in universities and public research organizations
The most significant change concerns the regime of the ownership of the inventions created by researchers of the universities and public research organizations. According to the version of art. 65 of the Italian Industrial Property Code in force prior to the change, unlike for any other private or public employee, the exclusive rights to the patentable invention developed by a researcher employed by a university or a public research organization were allocated to the researcher, and not to the employer, even when the invention was the result of the activity carried out by the researcher in the performance of his/her inventive tasks. The rule (so called “professor privilege”), which had been introduced in 2001 with the aim of stimulating the research at university level, has been criticized since its adoption by several players including the universities which claimed that the regime affected their possibilit
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