Cesare Galli

Admitted to the Italian Bar Association in 1989 and in 2001 to the special register of the Supreme Court of Italy. Cesare Galli is a lawyer and Chair of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Parma, where he teaches Fashion, Innovation and New Media Law in the Law degree program and Patent Law in the interdisciplinary degree in Biotechnology. From 2024–2025 academic year, he also teaches “Food Design and Intellectual Property Law” in English within the second level Master's program in Global Food Law. He also teaches at Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) University Patent Law and UPC Rules of Procedure in the POLIMI European Patent Litigation Certificate course (accredited by the UPC Administrative Committee – Decision D-AC/07/19072024_E 19 July 2024 of the Administrative Committee) (in English) and Patent Law in the POLIMI Industrial Property Course – Patents (in Italian). Since 2002, he has been listed in the leading international directories and guides as one of the leading Italian experts in the protection of IP rights. He is currently listed in IAM 1000 in the category “Gold – Individuals”, in IAM Strategy 300, in Chambers in the category “Band 1”, in IP Stars as “Patent star 2025” and “Trademark star 2025”, in Leaders League in the category “Leading” for patent litigation and in Legal 500. He usually advises major companies on worldwide anti-counterfeiting, licensing and IPRs management strategies and he is often asked to review and manage the most sensitive IP aspects of M&A transactions, developing creative solutions for the most problematic aspects thereof and delimitation of the respective rights of the parties. Since 1990, he has been involved in dispute resolution matters, both in the form of arbitration proceedings concerning IP rights and in negotiations for the alternative resolution of disputes concerning the validity and infringement of IP rights. He has been dealing with IP enforcement matters before the GC, CJEU, Italian national Courts and Courts established in third countries (in particular South Korea, China, and the US, where he served also as Expert Witness), often co-ordinating the enforcement strategies of the Clients at a global level. Since 2004, he has been Managing Partner of the law firm IP Law Galli, specialized in intellectual property, which itself is ranked among Europe’s top IP firms and is a member of the international UPCLA network. Since 2004, he has been a member of all the group of experts appointed by the Italian Parliament and Government to draft the reform of IP Law. Since their establishment he has been a Legal Expert of CNAC – National Council on Anti-Counterfeit (now CNALCIS), a member of the European Counterfeiting and Piracy Observatory launched within DG Markt of the European Commission (now a legal Expert of the Observatory on the Infringement of IP Rights at EUIPO), and he also works on a permanent basis with INDICAM, Confindustria, Centro Studi Anticontraffazione (as Scientific Director) and AmCham on IP issues. He is the author of an impressive number of publications on all aspects of intellectual property.