Abstract
Abstract The purpose of the article is twofold. At a more general level, it aims to illustrate how the changes in intellectual property litigation adopted in Italy since 2005, particularly in connection with the setting of damages suffered by rights holders and the recovery of profits obtained by infringers, have been remarkably successful in increasing the overall efficacy of the protection system. At the same time, it focuses on one particular feature of the system, the newly introduced recovery of profits from innocent infringers, arguing that the adoption of this second limb of recovery is questionable from a policy viewpoint and introduces a number of difficulties in the enforcement process, several of which transpire to be intractable. Some other aspects of the actions, both with regard to damages and recovery of profits, adopted in the recent Italian legislation are examined against the background of the EU enforcement directive and of TRIPS, with a view to highlighting both the strong points and the incongruities of the rules.
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