Fabrizio Jacobacci

Practice Areas

Fabrizio's areas of practice include high-tech, luxury, energy, automotive, biotech, aeronautics, pharmaceuticals, e-commerce, and art, just to name a few, with particular emphasis on Life Sciences, including the regulatory aspects related to medical devices and pharma products.

Career

Fabrizio graduated in law from the University of Turin in 1989 and was admitted to the (Turin) Bar in 1995 and to the Supreme Court, Italy, in 2007.

He started his career working with the German law firm Punder, Volhard, Weber & Axter (now Clifford Chance) in Frankfurt in 1988 and subsequently with Linklaters in London in 1989. He then joined Jacobacci & Partners before founding Studio Legale Jacobacci & Associati in 1996.

Fabrizio has acted as senior partner of the firm since its founding until today.

Fabrizio is a frequent speaker at international conferences on intellectual property matters, including for the Intellectual Property Section of the New York State Bar Association, the International Trademark Association, the International Bar Association and Marques. He is a lecturer at the WIPO post-graduate specialisation course on intellectual property, jointly organized by WIPO and Turin University, and a member of the editorial board of the "European Trademark Reports" published by Sweet & Maxwell.

Professional Memberships

Turin Bar Association

Supreme Court

Publications

- "Damages as a Remedy for a Trademark Infringement in Italy", The Journal of Proprietary Rights, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1995;

- "European Trade Mark Litigation Handbook", Chapter on Italy, London, 1998;

- "Importazioni Parallele ed Esaurimento del Diritto di Marchio", in Giurisprudenza Piemontese, Turin, 2000;

- "Patent Claim Interpretation - Global Edition", Chapter on Italy, New York, 2011-2012;

- "Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Chemical Inventions" Section on Italy, Oxford, 2011;

- "European Trade Mark and Design Law" Wolters Kluwer, The Netherlands, 2011;

- “Bucking the trend: when luxury brands target mass appeal”, World Trademark Review, Co-Author, 2013.

- "Luxury Law" , the Global Legal Post, Editor, United Kingdom Editor and Author for Italy, 2016-2022;

- "Patents" Lexology Getting the Deal Through, Author for Italy 2021-2022,