Counterfeiting Analysis and Industrial Property Rights Protection

Gallo & Partners is an industrial and intellectual property consultancy firm operating globally through an international network of specialized correspondents.
We assist companies and professionals with the registration of patents, trademarks, designs, and copyrights, as well as with the defence of the exclusive rights derived from these IP assets.

Protection of Rights and Counterfeiting Prevention

We place our expertise at the service of businesses to obtain and defend monopoly rights arising from patents, trademarks, designs, and copyrights.
Our goal is to provide comprehensive protection — from safeguarding an invention or brand to detecting possible acts of counterfeiting by competitors.
We defend our clients’ industrial property rights against all forms of infringement, whether direct or indirect, including equivalent infringement and contributory infringement.

Technical and Legal Consultancy on Counterfeiting

We provide technical, legal, and extrajudicial consultancy services, including:

  • Counterfeiting checks of industrial property rights by competing companies
  • Drafting of cease and desist letters and responses to infringement notices
  • Freedom-to-operate analyses to verify whether a product or process can be marketed without infringing third-party rights
  • Unfair competition and slavish imitation assessments, and nullity actions
  • Administrative oppositions and urgent proceedings

Our counterfeiting analyses cover identity, equivalence, and indirect interference, and are carried out by a multidisciplinary team of technical and legal professionals with combined engineering and legal expertise.

Judicial and Extrajudicial Representation

Our consultants are registered as Court-Appointed Technical Experts (CTU) with the Italian Business Courts — in particular, the Court of Venice — and also serve as Party-Appointed Technical Experts (CTP) in patent, trademark, and design disputes.
In parallel, we provide extrajudicial assistance for the management of assignments, licenses, and recordals of industrial property rights, ensuring the full validity and enforceability of IP assets.

Experience and Expertise Supporting Businesses

With a consolidated technical-legal approach and an international outlook, Gallo & Partners assists companies in the active protection of their industrial property rights and in the prevention of counterfeiting, ensuring that every innovation, trademark, or design remains an exclusive and protected asset.