He graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Padua (Italy) in 2001, with an orientation to plant engineering and a dissertation in the field of refrigerants.

After graduation he attended a PhD course in Technical Physics at the University of Padua and worked on several research projects in the field of modelling of thermophysical properties for pure refrigerants and their mixtures. He received his PhD in 2005.

Subsequently, he continued his research work for another year, thanks to a fellowship at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany) and a research collaboration at the Department of Technical Physics, University of Padua.

He is co-author of about twenty-five research publications, including more than twenty scientific papers in specialised international journals and presentations at international conferences.

Starting from 2006 he worked for eight years in the Verona Office of an intellectual property consulting firm.

He qualified as an Italian Patent Attorney and European Design Attorney in 2010. He qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2011. He qualified as an Italian Trademark Attorney and EU Trademark and Design Attorney in 2014. Since 2023 he is also registered representative before the Unified Patent Court.

Through his practice, during which he has worked for several Italian companies, he has acquired a deep knowledge of the legal, procedural and practical aspects that concern managing an IP portfolio.

He has dealt with inventions in many technical fields, such as protective clothing, protective helmets, farm machinery, components and processes for building and construction in general, machinery for food industry, devices against avalanches and falling rocks, machinery for stone processing, machinery for wood processing, retrofitting of tanks, renewable energy, sports equipment, optical equipment for analysis and process control.

He has extensive experience in patent proceedings in Italy and abroad, including opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office, and in technical opinions about patentability, validity, freedom to operate and infringement of patent rights. He is experienced and skilled in performing patent surveillances and patent searches. These skills have been enriched also by an internship at the European Patent Office and by continued professional education.
In addition, he has a wide experience in patent litigation, both in trial courts and out of court.

He has been frequently invited in workshops and training courses as a speaker about protection of inventions and industrial property rights.

Moreover, he has also experience in trademark matters, in connection with registration proceedings in Italy and abroad and with trademark litigation and opinions about registrability, validity and infringement.

Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Verona University.

She has been admitted to practice before the Italian and EU IP Offices, as Registered Trademark and Design Attorney.

Specialist course in Industrial Property concerning in particular the analysis of the problems related to trademarks and designs.
Her experience in trademark counseling goes back to 2005.
Elisa has worked in fact for some years in an industrial Property firm, where she acquired a broad experience in the field of Industrial Property.
She is specialized in trademark, design and patent filing procedures in Italy and abroad and she deals also with the registration procedures for the registration of trademarks and designs and for the grant of patents.
Elisa Dalla Tezza is also skilled in drafting replies to the official actions issued in the field of trademarks in Italy and abroad.
Elisa has joined the firm since its constitution.

Ilaria Miller graduated in law (magna cum laude) at the University of Trento with a specialization in international law, discussing a dissertation in international public law entitled “State immunity in civil jurisdiction in case of violation of fundamental human rights”.

During the University she focused her studies mainly on private and public international law and she attended an intensive program on international trade law ““General Problems of Transnational Law and its Implications for the Companies in International Trade” at the Deusto University of Bilbao (Spain).

From 2010 to 2013 she worked in law firms that dealt with civil and administrative law.

In 2013 she became a lawyer and she worked in law firms in the field of intellectual property, civil and administrative law.

In 2019 she has been admitted to practice before the Italian and EU IP Offices, as Registered Trademark and Design Attorney.

She dealt mainly with oppositions, invalidation actions, trademark searches, coexistence agreements and negotiations aimed to reach out-of-court dispute settlement, trademark surveillance services.

High-School Diploma – High School focused on law and economics.

Her experience goes back to 2011.

She is specialized in patents, designs and trademark procedures in Italy and abroad and she deals also with the registration procedures for the registration of trademarks and designs and for the grant of patents.

Raffaella Bovo also deals with the deadlines relating to the payment of the maintenance fees for patents and patent applications.

Andrea Arpaia graduated in Law at the University of Trento with a specialization in trans-national law.
After a training in International Law, he has specialized in the field of industrial and intellectual property law since 2003, cooperating with some of the most important legal IP firms and starting his own legal firm in 2008.

Member of Verona Bar Association and AIGLI (Italian Language Lawyers Association).
Tutor in many seminars and meetings about industrial and intellectual property law.
He renders legal advice and judicial assistance with respect to Intellectual Property Rights, (trademarks, patents, design, utility models and know how) Copyright law and Unfair competition to Italian and foreign companies dealing in the field of fashion, furnishing, industrial machineries and precision mechanics.

Andrea Arpaia has also a considerable experience in dealing with disputes regarding trademarks, in taking action on patent and trademark infringements and passing-off. He is also specialized in drawing up appropriate contractual papers, typically trademark co-existence agreements and in dealing with patent and trademark license negotiations or assignments when such patents or trademarks are sold or transferred.