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N&G Legal
Legal patent protection to protect your inventions
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We protect your ideas. We add value to your business.
N&G Legal: Intellectual Property Lawyers at Your Side
In a market characterized by increasingly fierce competition, legal patent protection through the filing of patents for inventions is not just a choice but an essential strategic necessity.
N&G Legal, a law firm specializing in industrial property and a leading provider of patent legal advice, assists medium and large companies, multinationals, as well as innovative startups, research institutes and organizations, and individuals (designers, creatives, authors, researchers, and founders) who wish to protect their ideas, inventions, research results, or creations and capitalize on them.
Patents: From Legal Strategy to Procedural Defense
With N&G Legal, you have a reliable partner to address any issue relating to industrial property, both in the pre-trial phase and in patent litigation before specialized corporate divisions.
We assist clients in the preliminary assessment of risks, opportunities, costs, and benefits associated with initiating legal action, including transnational/cross-border legal action through the involvement of our foreign correspondents, against infringers or owners of industrial property rights (invalidity actions). We also offer strategic legal advice not only to prevent infringement/counterfeiting of third-party IP rights but also to address, from a legal and competition perspective, the methods of promoting, communicating, and marketing products and services.
Our experience in industrial litigation, both domestically and internationally, includes disputes involving patents, supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), utility models, designs, trade secrets and know-how, copyright, and unfair competition. This perspective, combined with our experience in advising on non-contentious matters and negotiating complex agreements specific to the IP sector, allows us to guide clients' decisions with an understanding of the potential operational and commercial implications, as well as the legal implications and nuances inherent in other areas of law.
Industrial Law and related legal aspects: regulatory legislation, competition and market law, and corporate transactions
N&G Legal's professionals have gained experience in complementary legal matters related to the protection of industrial property or unfair competition. These include, but are not limited to, competition and market law, particularly with regard to unfair commercial practices, misleading advertising, or contractual aspects that may impact competition; regulatory legislation in the chemical (REACH) and pharmaceutical sectors (Medicine Code and aspects relating to Marketing Authorizations (MACs or Drug Master Files); and labeling issues, such as environmental labeling or so-called "MOCA" (Products for the Environment). The firm also provides legal advice in relation to corporate transactions and other corporate law matters, such as assessing the legal aspects of industrial property rights, with particular reference to the analysis of contractual aspects and the structure of patent and design portfolios in M&A transactions. Furthermore, N&G Legal also assists clients in civil matters, for example, in relation to highly complex technical legal or contractual matters, such as breaches of contract, warranty rights, and defects in industrial plants and machinery.
Finally, the structured collaboration with Notarbartolo & Gervasi's patent attorneys allows us to offer coordinated and timely solutions, both legally and technically, particularly effective in urgent IP proceedings, such as precautionary proceedings for description, seizure, or injunctions, where organization and the synergistic interaction of expertise are crucial.
Specific contracts: to enhance IP assets
In the contractual sphere, we transform opportunities into secure agreements: licensing agreements, patent assignments, research, development, and testing of new technologies or products, testing or improvement agreements, Material Transfer Agreements, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), design commission agreements, consortium agreements, and joint ownership agreements for inventions or designs are some of the contracts specific to the IP, patent, and design sector that N&G Legal professionals routinely draft and negotiate for their clients.
In the contractual sphere, we transform opportunities into solid and targeted agreements. N&G Legal professionals assist clients in drafting and negotiating specific agreements for the patent and design sectors, aimed at protecting and enhancing industrial property rights.
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Trust us to protect your inventions and technology. We work for your success.
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Our legal assistance: protection of inventions and industrial secrets
Litigation, patent enforcement, and litigation:
- Patent invalidity actions
- Patent infringement actions
- Patent ownership claims actions
- Protection of know-how, trade secrets and software
- Urgent proceedings and unheard proceedings
- Actions to obtain precautionary measures, injunctions, seizures, withdrawal from the market
- Procedures for description
- Actions before the Specialized Sections in business matters (patents and trademarks)
- Actions before the Court of Justice of the European Union
- Litigation before the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
- Life sciences litigation on pharmaceutical, chemical, and SPC patents
- Litigation relating to industrial patents and enforcing utility models
- Actions and assistance at national and international trade fairs
- Dispute over fair compensation for inventors
- Arbitrators
patent consultancy
We are by your side at every stage:
- Patenting ideas and inventions: from preliminary consultancy to filing strategy
- Filing of national, European Union, UPC, and international patents
- Pharmaceutical, chemical, life science, industrial and technical patents
- Patent filing and protection of new plant varieties
- Patent, prior art and prior art searches
- Patent renewal and rights management
- Opinions on patent infringement and Freedom to Operate (FTO)
- Opinions on the validity of patents and utility models
- Technical assistance and consultancy with N&G group professionals in administrative and civil litigation matters.
Every patent represents an investment. Our patent enforcement efforts are aimed at protecting innovation, technology, and competitive value.
Contracts and Strategic Consulting
Any collaboration or technology transfer must be regulated with the utmost care:
- Accordi MTA (Material Transfer Agreement), Testing e R&D
- Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
- Contracts for the assignment or licensing of patents, utility models and industrial secrets
- Joint ventures, transfer agreements and technology transfers
- Commission contracts
- Indemnity and Disclaimer Agreements in the IP Field
- Consortia and R&D “club” contracts
- Co-ownership agreements on IP rights
- Contracts with research institutes and researchers
- Consulting in internationalization operations
- Consulting for spin-offs and innovative start-ups
- Agreements to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in IP and R&D
Our experience in the contractual field ensures customized solutions, always oriented towards business objectives.
Our customers count on us at every stage: R&D, protection and valorization of technologies
We are the trusted partner of:
- Medium and large companies that acquire or defend market share by developing, protecting and enhancing technologies and their IP assets
- Multinational companies facing complex and globalized markets and requiring structured IP assistance in transnational contexts
- Companies active in every technological field, in the industrial, chemical, pharmaceutical and life science, fashion and design sectors
- Companies active in the research and development of new patented plant varieties and in the exploitation of Plant Breeders Rights (PBR)
- Startups and spin-offs that need to implement effective strategies to protect and exploit new ideas and solutions, patents, designs or other industrial property rights
- Researchers and research institutes in the context of R&D projects and in the management of results from an IP perspective
Wherever there is an idea to defend, N&G Legal is there.
general questions
Why is it important to protect a patent?
Patent protection helps protect an invention from unauthorized use and preserve a company's competitive advantage.
Does N&G Legal also handle international disputes?
Yes, the Firm handles national and international disputes, including before the Unified Patent Court (UPC).
Is it possible to protect company know-how as well?
Yes, we assist clients in protecting know-how, trade secrets, and software.
Does the firm also deal with IP contracts?
Yes, N&G Legal drafts and negotiates licensing agreements, technology transfer agreements, NDAs, and R&D agreements.
We protect and enhance your company's patents and know-how
Trust us: protect your technology
Don't wait for a competitor to capitalize on your success. Legal planning and IP protection are strategic investments.
N&G Legal offers you the opportunity to take the first step safely.
