Carlo Sala graduated in Law from Milan Catholic University in 1991.  He is married with three children.

Carlo is a lawyer with several years of experience in IP law (trademarks, know how, patents, utility models, design, copyright), unfair competition, advertising, labeling, IP-related contractual issues, including licensing and due diligence reporting. He represents commercial clients in all types of litigation before all courts in Italy and before the competent EU bodies (e.g. EU Courts and EUIPO), where his expertise in all IP related matters has been recognized by his clients - which include law firms in need of specialized help.

Carlo’s legal record includes cases which have been referred to in most of the major legal reports and in the business press.  For example, in the 90s, one of Carlo’s cases was the first Italian precedent affirming the application of trademark law to domain names.

Recently two decisions by Milan and Venice IP Court granted Carlo's clients request to acknowledge copyright protection to the design of a well known after ski boot, while another applied the ‘doctrine of equivalents’ and the existing rules on contributory infringement in a patent infringement case.

In the 2010-2020 decade, Carlo took part in the EUIPO’s “Stakeholder Quality Assurance Panels Project” for ECTA (European Trademark Association) thereby auditing some the EUIPO’s invalidity decisions.

Carlo is also the author of articles in legal journals and has been speaker at IP events in Italy and elsewhere. Carlo collaborated with the Chair of IP Law at Milan University in the 2000-2010 decade.

Carlo Sala graduated in Law from Milan Catholic University in 1991.  He is married with three children.

Carlo is a lawyer with several years of experience in IP law (trademarks, know how, patents, utility models, design, copyright), unfair competition, advertising, labeling, IP-related contractual issues, including licensing and due diligence reporting. He represents commercial clients in all types of litigation before all courts in Italy and before the competent EU bodies (e.g. EU Courts and EUIPO), where his expertise in all IP related matters has been recognized by his clients - which include law firms in need of specialized help.

Carlo’s legal record includes cases which have been referred to in most of the major legal reports and in the business press.  For example, in the 90s, one of Carlo’s cases was the first Italian precedent affirming the application of trademark law to domain names.

Recently two decisions by Milan and Venice IP Court granted Carlo's clients request to acknowledge copyright protection to the design of a well known after ski boot, while another applied the ‘doctrine of equivalents’ and the existing rules on contributory infringement in a patent infringement case.

In the 2010-2020 decade, Carlo took part in the EUIPO’s “Stakeholder Quality Assurance Panels Project” for ECTA (European Trademark Association) thereby auditing some the EUIPO’s invalidity decisions.

Carlo is also the author of articles in legal journals and has been speaker at IP events in Italy and elsewhere. Carlo collaborated with the Chair of IP Law at Milan University in the 2000-2010 decade.

Wilma Zanin graduated from Milan University in 1990.  She is married with one child.

Wilma is a lawyer with several years of experience in IP law.  She has gained extensive experience in the last twenty years working in  one of the leading Italian IP law firms, inter alia focusing on IPR customs and excise enforcement. Like Carlo, she handles all types of IP litigation matters.

Partner and member of the BOD, Italian patent and trade mark attorney, European patent attorney, European trade mark and design attorney, member of the Institute of the Italian Industrial Property Consultants, member of the Institute of the European Patent Attorneys, member of the Collegio Italiano dei Consulenti in Proprietà Industriale and of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI).

He has a degree in physics from the University of Torino and received his post-graduate diploma in European Patent Litigation from the University of Strasbourg. He is Court expert in patent litigation before the Court of Torino. He is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and of the Licensing Executives Society (LES).

Partner and member of the BOD, Italian patent and trade mark attorney, European patent attorney, European trade mark and design attorney, member of the Institute of the Italian Industrial Property Consultants, member of the Institute of the European Patent Attorneys, member of the Collegio Italiano dei Consulenti in Proprietà Industriale and of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI).

He has a degree in physics from the University of Torino and received his post-graduate diploma in European Patent Litigation from the University of Strasbourg. He is Court expert in patent litigation before the Court of Torino. He is a member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and of the Licensing Executives Society (LES).