Important principle expressed by the case law on trademarks and graphic representation.
The Court of Bari has affirmed some relevant principles regarding industrial and intellectual property.
In particular The industrial property rights attributable to the trademark belonging to the owner of the same cannot refer to the subject as such, but only to a specific graphic representation of it.
Therefore, the subject who does not claim copyright on the character cannot try to replace them and "eternalize" them through the registration of trademarks, thus evading the rules..
Otherwise, the trademark owner would end up being granted broader, more time-independent protection than that afforded to the author of the work by copyright law.
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