Trademark protection and counterfeiting: the relevance of public faith
With sentence no. 31836/2020, the Italian Court of Cassation again ruled on the relationship between the protection of the trademark and the crimes of "counterfeiting, alteration or use of trademarks or distinctive signs or patents, models and designs" and "introduction into the State and trade of products with false signs ", respectively provided for and punished by art. 473 and 474 of the Italian criminal code. The case in question concerned a seller of spare parts for auto