Maria Cristina joined Portolano Cavallo in August 2018 as an intern.In 2019 she received her law degree from the Luigi Bocconi University, with a thesis entitled “Artificial Intelligence and European Copyright Law: new challenges and new horizons“. After graduation, she continued practicing law at Portolano Cavallo, mainly focusing on intellectual property, media law and antitrust in both in court and out-of-court matters. During her academic career, Maria Cristina was selected to attend the Transatlantic Intellectual Property Law Summer Academy at the University School of Law (TIPSA) in Cleveland. She also received a scholarship to participate in the extracurricular course “Copyright X option” at the University Harvard School of Law and completed a study abroad at the London School of Economics.
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Distribution and after-sales service agreements in the motor vehicle sector are currently governed by Regulation (EU) No. 461/2010 of May 27, 2010 on the application of Article 101 para. 3 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (“TFEU”) to categories of vertical agreements and (...)
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On February 1, 2022, the Italian Competition Authority (the “AGCM” or the “Authority”) issued its decision in case No. I835, opened in 2019, concerning anti-competitive agreements among companies operating in the water meter market (more information on the proceedings available here). The (...)
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On September 8, 2020, the European Commission (“Commission”) published a proposal for a Council and European Parliament regulation to eliminate duties on certain products imported to the European Union (full text accessible here). In return, the United States will reduce its duties on certain EU (...)
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Starting August 1, 2020, a new trade regime between the European Union and Vietnam has entered into force and as a consequence European exports to Vietnam are now taxed less. The Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Vietnam (“Trade Agreement” — full text accessible here) is the (...)
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On June 2 and 3, 2020, the European Commission launched two public consultations concerning firstly a “Digital Services Act” package and secondly a “New Competition Tool” in order to bring EU legal toolkits in line with the latest economic and technological developments. (...)
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According to the ICA’s preliminary findings, Google’s refusal to integrate a “vertical” e-mobility app into the Android Auto system may be unjustified and significantly limit the usefulness and usability of that app since the driver could only use it when the vehicle is stationary. This conduct (...)
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According to the ICA’s preliminary findings, Amazon only granted sellers using Amazon’s own fulfillment and logistics services (FBA) advantages in terms of offer visibility and sales improvement on the Amazon marketplace, in comparison to sellers that are not customers of Amazon’s FBA services and (...)
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On March 25, 2019, the European Commission announced the € 12,555,000 fine issued to Nike for breaching European Union and European Economic Area (EEA) competition rules through its licensing and distribution agreements with resellers, more specifically for prohibiting merchants from making (...)
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According to the ICA’s preliminary findings, Amazon only granted sellers using Amazon’s own fulfillment and logistics services (FBA) advantages in terms of offer visibility and sales improvement on the Amazon marketplace, in comparison to sellers that are not customers of Amazon’s FBA services and (...)
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