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Maria Corso

Attorney-at-law
Maria works mainly in trademarks. She provides tailoredsolutions and strategies to protect intellectual property, working both withmultinationals and with SMEs in a wide range of sectors, including food &beverage, retail, publishing, media, electronics, software, packaging, consumergoods, fashion, beauty and entertainment.

She assists clients in preparing and filing theirtrademark applications, as well as with prosecution of those applications. Shealso provides validity opinions and advises on infringement of third-partytrademarks and, more generally, on unfair competition.

She has built up significant experience in trademarkregistrability opinions and filing strategies for national, European,international and foreign trademarks. She also has expert knowledge of theprocedures for surveillance, renewal and transfer of ownership of trademarks.

Over her career, she has gained experience in many areasof the world of intellectual property, including the drafting of agreements anduse licenses, assignment contracts for trademarks and patents, filingunpublished works with the SIAE (Italian association of authors andpublishers), and the reassignment of domain names.

Maria obtained her law degree from university with athesis in business law, with a focus on copyright titled “Legal protection ofthe television format”.

Prior to joining Modiano & Partners, Maria practicedas a lawyer with law firms specializing in industrial law, copyright, andconfidentiality & data protection.
About me
In my free time I like...  Reading 
If I was a superhero I’d be...  Starlight 
The best trip I’ve ever taken was...  India 

Focus

Education
University Degree 2nd level in Law, University of Sannio (Benevento)

Professional qualifications
Italian attorney-at-law

Specializations in trademark matters
Contracts (license, distribution, confidentiality, coexistence, etc.)
Filing, prosecution and renewal of European Union trademarks
Filing, prosecution and renewal of international trademarks
Filing, prosecution and renewal of national and foreign trademarks
Novelty and freedom-to-operate searches
Oppositions and appeals at the EUIPO
Oppositions and appeals at the national trademark Offices, domestic and worldwide
Recordal of trademark ownership changes
Trademark portfolio analysis and/or management
Trademark validity and infringement litigations
Trademark validity and infringement opinions

Specializations in patents and design
Filing and prosecution of national, Community and international utility models
Filing and prosecution of national, Community and international designs

Technical areas of expertise
Cosmetics and perfumes
E-commerce
Fashion
Food & beverage
Furnishings
Jewelry
Media
Networking
Packaging
Software
Telecommunications

Languages
English
Italian
Spanish

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