Competition
Intellectual property knows a natural clash with competition. Intellectual property law encourages innovation by granting exclusive rights where competition tends to open the markets and, in order to do so, pays particular attention to the use of those rights.
Recently, both US and EU judges and scholars have found that competition and intellectual property laws can be seen as complementary, but the conflict remains, and forces intellectual property lawyers, as well as those who deal with distribution issues, to understand and to manage such themes. The main field of academic research of our firm’s founder is the private enforcement of the antitrust law. So Nitti & Associati is ready for the wave of private enforcement which is expected to hit the EU countries in the next few years. Furthermore, such studies allow our firm to confidently deal with every kind of contract which is relevant under the EU competition law.