Elena Monte

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ABOUT ELENA MONTE

Italian Registered Trademark Agent, Professional Representative before the EUIPOCounselling in all areas of Intellectual Property to include developing legal strategies to establish, maintain and enforce rights. Managing worldwide IP portfolios and IP budget across a range of industries including luxury goods, fashion and apparel, pharmaceutical, home furnishing, automotive, financial services, energy, hotels. Counselling clients on worldwide clearance, registration, licensing, policing of trademarks and anti-counterfeiting activity. Negotiating and drafting commercial agreements, assignment, coexistence and worldwide settlement agreements. Conducting due diligence on intellectual property-related aspects of corporate transactions. Legal advices on passing off, trade regulations, copyright, domain names, unfair competition law. Pro bono activity in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce of Turin and lectures on Intellectual Property matters to clients and students.Member of MARQUES.Publications:• Testimonianze aziendali per la tutela e valorizzazione delle forme, Italia Oggi, March 20, 2008;• Obligation to use registered Community trademarks, Intellectual Asset Management, May 20, 2009;• Protecting the shape of a product, Intellectual Asset Management, September 9, 2009;• Italian opposition proceedings: from utopia to reality, Intellectual Asset Management, May 19, 2010;• Commissioned designs: an oral contract is not worth the paper it is not written on, Intellectual Asset Management, February 9, 2011.