UNFAIR COMPETITION INVESTIGATIONS

Our intervention, which can be performed over the entire national territory, is to carry out all the necessary investigations to provide documentary evidence for offences done in cases of unfair competition (for example; infidelity of partners, collaborators, managers, and executives, new activities done in competition whose real owners hide behind Italian or foreign trust companies, actions to protect marks or patents, misappropriation of manpower, etc.). This evidence is then put in investigative reports which can be subsequently used in court and eventually supported by the owner of the license, as well as our legally authorized operating personnel.

Unfair competition is governed by the article 2589 of the Civil Code and subsequent amendments, and occurs mainly in the cases indicated below:

• Use of names and marks which create confusion with the names and marks of another companies
• Imitation of the form and appearance of a competitor’s products
• Activities which create confusion with the products and activities of a competitor
• Spreading of disparaging news and appreciations regarding the products and activities of competitors
• Appropriation of specific qualities of competitors’ products
• Violation of professional correctness principles which damages a competing company (for example, industrial espionage, boycotting, employees’ transfer, violation of publishing regulations, etc.)