Background
Piana, Carlo was born on September 25, 1968 in Omegna, Italy.
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Carlo Piana
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University of Milan (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1992). Spoken languages: Italian, English, French.
Career
Worked at Studio Legale Sutti (Milan) specializing in International Contracts, Foreign Investments, Mergers and Acquisition, Distributorship, Agency and Franchise Law, Construction Law, Oil Law, European Economic Community Law, Competition Law, Antitrust Law, Corporate Law, Banking & Finance Law, Commercial Litigation, Arbitration, Bankruptcy, Debt Collection, Product Liability Law, Entertainment Law. White Collar Crime, Criminal Law. Industrial Property and Competition Department: Patent Litigation and Prosecution, Trademark Litigation and Prosecution, Copyright Law, Industrial Models, License Negotiation, Technology Transfer, Computer Law, Patent and Trademark Filing and Research, Advertising Law.
Labour and Industrial Relations Department: Labour Law, Employer's Liability, Pension Law, Industrial Relations, Managers' Contracts, Immigration Law. Author: "The Contract of Franchising," 1994. "The Drafting of Current Bank Account Agreements in the Light of Recent Regulations," Lecture, 1996.
Assistant Professor, Civil Law Department, University of Milan. Member: Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (International Association of Young Lawyers). Associazione Nazionale Alpini (ANA).
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The firm is a member of LEGIT (Specialists in Legal Information Technology), INDICAM (Institute for the Protection of Trademarks), the Ligue pour l'Étude de la Concurrence, ADVOC the British-Italian Chamber of Commerce, the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in Italy, the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Italy and the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Great Britain. The firm's resources include networked, state-of-the-art groupware, word-processing, OCR, CAD, accounting systems which can communicate directly with clients via ISDN, Internet and modem (standards' ITU-T, V.32terbo, V.fast, up to V.34+, 42bis, MNP 5 and Videotex), and access to most known on-line data banks, including case law, commercial, and industrial property information services.
Views
Piana has been involved in some of the cornerstone legal cases in Europe, such as the long-running antitrust battle between the EU Commission and Microsoft where he represents both the FSFE and the Samba Team, the standardization of OOXML at ISO/IEC, and more recently defending Oracle in its attempted acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Membership
Piana is a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review ("IFOSS L rev") and is member of the board of directors of the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation.
