Partner
Luca
Giove
Office
Padua and Milan
Languages
English and French
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Professional activity
Since the beginning of his career, Luca has dedicated himself exclusively to Intellectual Property, both in and out of court, and Information Technology.
He also gained vast experience in intellectual property litigation before the Italian Specialised Divisions, as well as in Italian and European IP-related judicial and administrative proceedings before Italian and EU authorities. He has regularly taken part in Italian proceedings involving parallel actions in other jurisdictions related to, in particular chemical-pharmaceutical, bio-technological, electronic and mechanical patents, as well as trade secrets, trademarks and distinctive signs, designs, unfair competition and copyright, in the most diverse industrial and commercial sectors.
Luca also regularly assists his clients in contracts with an IP dimension, for example licences, research and development agreements, intellectual property right co-ownership agreements, distinctive sign co-existence agreements, technology transfer, distribution, production and supply agreements.
Luca has also provided assistance in regulatory matters concerning the Life Sciences sector.
With reference to Information Technology, Luca regularly provides advice to clients in various fields in particular in relation to personal data processing matters.
He is a founding partner of GR Legal.
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Training , career and professional qualifications
After having graduated from the University of Padua, Luca obtained an LLM from the University of London (School of African and Oriental Studies) in 2000.
Subsequently, he worked in the intellectual property departments of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Milan offices and of Bonelli Erede.
He founded in 2010 Giove Law Firm, which then merged into GR Legal.
He was called to the Bar in 2002 and he has had rights of audience before the Italian Supreme Court since 2017.
Associations, teaching activities, publications, awards
He is the author of many articles in English and Italian published in journals such as “Il Diritto Industriale” , “La Giurisprudenza Italiana” and the Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, as well as essays such as ” Controlling third party use at the border” (in “Trade Marks at the Limit”, edited by Jeremy Phillips) and “The SPC in Italy” of the forthcoming handbook “Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPC)”.
He was an adjunct professor at the University of Padua for “Patent and Biotechnology Law” for many years. He still regularly holds patent law lectures at this University for “post-graduate” students.
He is an active member of AIPPI, INTA, LES International, EPLAW, APRAM and the SOAS Alumni Association.
He was a finalist un 2017 of the prestigious Top Legal Awards as professional of the year for patent litigation.
In the same year his Law Firm, which later merged into GR Legal, was a finalist at the Top Legal Awards as the best Law Firm in Northern Italy.