{"id":23020,"date":"2026-10-20T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=23020"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T08:07:56","slug":"design-protection-and-enforcement-via-copyright","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/evento\/design-protection-and-enforcement-via-copyright","title":{"rendered":"Design protection and enforcement via copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Milan, 30 November 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On 30 November, LES Italia will organize a conference on one of the most topical and widely debated issues in intellectual property law: design protection through copyright, in light of the recent CJEU ruling in the Mio\/Konektra case and the recast EU Design Directive.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will feature three roundtable discussions, offering complementary perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>The first session, moderated by <strong>Emanuela Bianco<\/strong> (Saglietti Bianco), with<strong> Eleonora Rosati<\/strong> (Stockholm University) and <strong>Michael Ritscher<\/strong> (MLL Legal Ltd), will focus on the legal and case-law framework.<\/p>\n<p>It will be followed by a comparative discussion examining the approaches adopted in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. The panel will be moderated by <strong>Giovanni Francesco Casucci<\/strong> (GA Alliance), with <strong>Giovanni Guglielmetti<\/strong> (BonelliErede), <strong>Tobias Cohen Jehoram<\/strong> (De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek) and D<strong>r. Henning Hartwig<\/strong> (Bardehle Pagenberg).<\/p>\n<p>The final session will bring the industry perspective to the forefront. Moderated by <strong>Simona Cazzaniga<\/strong> (Studio Legale Sutti), it will feature <strong>Ornella Pasta<\/strong> (Flos), <strong>Daniele Livi<\/strong> (Fiam), <strong>Eloisa Giorgi<\/strong> (Smeg) and <strong>Murielle Vincenti<\/strong> (Prada), exploring the practical implications of these issues across the lighting, furniture, household appliances and luxury fashion industries.<\/p>\n<p>A programme combining academic rigour with industrial insight, at a time when the boundary between design and copyright protection is becoming increasingly important.<\/p>\n<p>Attendance is free of charge and open exclusively to LES members, as well as faculty members and students of Politecnico di Milano.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/registrazione\/design-protection-and-enforcement-via-copyright\">Register for the event<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Professionals interested in attending the event may consider <a href=\"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/membership\">joining LES Italia<\/a>. The membership fee for those joining in the final four months of the year already covers the following year.<\/p>\n<p>For further information: <a href=\"mailto:media@les-italy.org\">media@les-italy.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Milan, 30 November 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":23042,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[206,207,205],"class_list":["post-23020","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-evidence-home","tribe_events_cat-events-les-international","tribe_events_cat-events-les-italy-eng","cat_evidence-home","cat_events-les-international","cat_events-les-italy-eng"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/23020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/23020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23173,"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/23020\/revisions\/23173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23020"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/les-italy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=23020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}