Anna Maria Bardone

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE BARZANO’ & ZANARDO S.p.A. www-barzano-zanardo.com Practice Group Trademark Manager Since 1993 – Intellectual Property ● Representation before Italian Patent and Trademark Office, EUIPO and WIPO Legal advice to Italian and international clients on trademarks, designs and copyright ● Availability searches and clearance opinions ● Management of oppositions, observations and appeals at Italian and EU level ● Handling of Office Actions before IP Offices ● Supervision of worldwide trademark assignment and licensing projects for multinational clients ● Drafting of settlement agreements, mediation and arbitration clauses ● Coordination of litigation strategies and supervision of external counsel in judicial proceedings (patents, know-how, copyright, designs, trademarks) ● Participation in hearings before the General Court in trademark invalidity appeals ARBITRATION & ADR EXPERIENCE ● Mediator in civil and commercial disputes since 2015, with a focus on Intellectual Property ● Extensive experience in IP mediation proceedings and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms ● Arbitrator in domain name disputes under the “.it” ccTLD for accredited dispute resolution providers Selected domain name decisions: alientech.it; tomponzi.it; timitalia.it; nemesis.it; rocca.it; societagenerale.it; betfairitalia.it; blanx.it; alice.it; lyondellbasellterminals.com; allianz.com; appbrokers.com; pirellitires.com; preliosagency.it; pzero.biz; pzero.info; pirellilabs.com; zero.org; pirelliusa.com EXPO MILANO 2015 – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GOVERNANCE ● Director, Authority for Temporary Protection of Intellectual Property Rights ● Board Member, Intellectual Property Rights Protection Authority ● Board Member, “IP Focal Point”, in cooperation with MISE, ANCI and Expo Milano 2015 MEDIATION EXPERIENCE (SELECTED CASES) Advocacy in IP mediation proceedings before MFSD - IP ADR Centre: ● MED 01/2016 – Confartigianato Imprese Arezzo / Cooperativa Sociale Valdarnia – Mediator: Alberto Piergrossi ● MED 02/2016 – Residenza Anni Azzurri – Mediator: Federico Bock ● MED 03/2018 – KOS S.p.A. – Mediator: Marco Vincenti PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES Publications ● Property consultants: between crisis and opportunity. The importance of ADR.Newsletter of the Order of Industrial Property Consultants (2012) ● Mediation in Intellectual Property Matters: A Comparison of the Community and Italian Models, Newsletter of the Order of Industrial Property Consultants (2014) Lectures ● 2016 – Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) World Intellectual Property Day Conference: “The Power of Change: Alternative Dispute Resolution” ● 2018 – Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) Academy: “Mediation of IP Disputes” ● 2019 – Italian Industrial Property Institute: “Mediation and ADR Systems in Industrial Property” ● 2021 – Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) Conference on Fighting Counterfeiting: “Mediation in IP Disputes” PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS & INSTITUTIONAL ROLES ● President of the Board, Italian Industrial Property Consultants Institute (since 2016) – www.ordine-brevetti.it ● Vice President, Italian Committee of Professional Associations (CUP) (2023–2026) http://www.cuprofessioni.it/ ● Member, European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Brussels – Liberal Professions Section; Delegate of the Italian Government https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en ● Founder of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Commission at the Italian Industrial Property Consultants Institute (since 2015) ● Member, Association of National Institutes of Intellectual Property Attorneys (A.N.I.P.A.) https://www.anipa.org/

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Publications ● Property consultants: between crisis and opportunity. The importance of ADR.Newsletter of the Order of Industrial Property Consultants (2012) ● Mediation in Intellectual Property Matters: A Comparison of the Community and Italian Models, Newsletter of the Order of Industrial Property Consultants (2014) Lectures ● 2016 – Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) World Intellectual Property Day Conference: “The Power of Change: Alternative Dispute Resolution” ● 2018 – Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) Academy: “Mediation of IP Disputes” ● 2019 – Italian Industrial Property Institute: “Mediation and ADR Systems in Industrial Property” ● 2021 – Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) Conference on Fighting Counterfeiting: “Mediation in IP Disputes”