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TOP LEGAL AWARDS 2019: SIMONA LAVAGNINI TRIUMPHS AS “PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHT CATEGORY”

19/11/2019

Simona Lavagnini, founding partner of LGV Avvocati, triumphs as professional of the year in the category Intellectual Property – Trademarks and Copyright – at the awards ceremony of the Top Legal Awards.

 

Yesterday evening during the Top Legal ceremony awards were conferred to the most important Italian Law Firms and professionals of 2019 in the legal sector. In the field of intellectual property, the presence of the law firm LGV Avvocati among the most important Italian law firms is today well-established. This year, the Firm was shortlisted among the best Italian law firms of 2019 in the categories Patent Litigation and Intellectual Property – Trademarks and Copyright.

As far as professionals are concerned, a technical commission crowned Simona Lavagnini, founding Partner of the Law Firm LGV Avvocati, as professional of the year in the category Intellectual Property – Trademarks and Copyright. The arguments of the commission are as follows: “She distinguished herself for having brought to the Court of Cassation a leading case, the first in Italy. She obtained for Yahoo! the exclusion of any liability for the presence, among the indexed results, of links to protected contents owned by an Italian television group”.


MILANO MUSIC WEEK: MRS. SIMONA LAVAGNINI AT THE WORKSHOP “FIMI ACADEMY – LEGAL & CONTENT PROTECTION”

15/11/2019

For the 2019 edition of the “Milano Music Week” exhibition, FIMI organized a full immersion’s afternoon with experts in the legal and content protection sector in the digital age. The Law Firm LGV Avvocati will be represented by its founding Partner Mrs. Simona Lavagnini, leading expert in copyright and new technology law and who has already took part to the previous edition of the exhibitions.

 

At the present edition of the exhibition, the contribution of Ms. Lavagnini will be addressed to the current issue of unfair competition in the world of music through the social media. Shall it be considered as free interaction or advertising? What are the applicable rules? Due to its practice-oriented approach, the contribution will provide the market’s operators with very useful indications to avoid “getting into trouble” in this ever-changing sector, which today appears to be lacking in systematic regulation.

The workshop will be held on 22 November at 14.00 at the offices of FIMI in Via Leone XIII, 14, Milan.

For more information please visit https://www.milanomusicweek.it/evento/2019/fimi-academy-legal-amp-content-protection-workshop-presented-by-fimi/


LGV AMONG FINALISTS OF THE TOP LEGAL AWARDS

29/10/2019

LGV is among the finalists of the prestigious Top Legal Awards in the categories “Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation” and “Intellectual Property – Trademarks and Copyright”. A nomination also for Ms. Lavagnini in the category “Lawyer of the Year – Intellectual Property Trademarks and Copyright”.

 

The TopLegal Awards competition is conducted according to precise and rigorous selection criteria to assess the use of resources for the benefit of the customer, service innovation, specific knowledge of the industry and the activity and solutions brought to the customer. Once again this year, LGV has received numerous nominations for prestigious awards: both the firm as a whole and Ms Lavagnini as a single professional have been selected among the best representatives of the legal sector in the IP field.
The winners of the TopLegal Awards will be announced during the evening to be held next November 18 in Milan.


SIMONA LAVAGNINI SPEAKER AT THE ANNUAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY ITECHLAW

25/10/2019

On October 31, 2019, Simona Lavagnini will participate as a speaker at the panel “eSport: Exploring legal aspects of a global phenomenon” in the conference ITECHLAW to be held in Dublin, Ireland.

 

The meeting will be attended by several expert speakers from different European countries, such as England, Germany, and Ireland. Representing Italy will be Simona Lavagnini, founding member of LGV Avvocati, who will address the issue of eSports and its regulatory discipline in Italy. In particular, Lawyer Lavagnini will focus on the relationship between Esports and the sports regulations, as well as on the theme of the different rights in the field, from that of the owners of the copyright on video games, up to the players (with their right to the image and their performance), to the teams, to the event organizers, producers of audiovisual content, broadcasters and, finally, on the issue of the protection of minors, both from the point of view of minor athletes and from the point of view of minors as spectators, especially in the light of AGCOM’s new Italian legislation on the classification of video games and audiovisual works intended for the web.

For information and registration: www.itechlaw.org/Dublin2019/agenda/session-2c-esport-exploring-legal-aspects-global-phenomenon


TANKRED THIEM CONFIRMED AS VICE PRESIDENT OF DAV ITALY

23/10/2019

On October 18th, DAV Italy associates meeting took place in Milan and elections were held for the renewal of the elected offices. Tankred Thiem has been unanimously confirmed as of Vice President of the Italian section of the Association of German Attorneys.

 

At the annual meeting held at Straf Hotel in Milan, Tankred Thiem has been re-elected as Vice President of DAV Italy, the italian section of the Deutscher Anwaltverein (DAV).
DAV’s relevant aims concern the protection, care and development of the professional and business interests of the German Advocacy following the statutory principles. Overall, promoting right’s protection, continuing professional education, as well as civic sense and lawyer’s critical mindset, are the main goals. These aims will be pursued in Italy through a close collaboration between German and Italian lawyers.

One of the most important and prestigious events managed by DAV is the “Deutscher Anwaltstag” (https://anwaltstag.de/de/) which is the national legal profession conference focused on legal and policy issues. It annually brings together legal professionals, members of the Courts, politics, academics and press representatives for a social, legal and professional exchange of views.
Moreover, It is considered one of the largest training events for lawyers.