Lawyer Niccolò Galli
Of Counsel in MPM Avvocati – Law Firm in Florence, Italy
Practice Areas
- Diritto della Concorrenza
- Regolazione dei mercati digitali
- Trasferimento tecnologico
Resume
Publications
Conferences and Seminars
Resume
I am a member of the Florence Bar Association, researcher at the Centre for a Digital Society of the European University Institute and contract professor in IP and competition law at the University of Florence. My legal expertise ranges from the intersections between innovation, antitrust law and intellectual property rights to data governance and digital market regulation.
Previously, I worked for the technology transfer offices of the University of Florence and the Tuscan Region. Between 2017-2020, I participated as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie researcher in the joint European doctorate EIPIN – Innovation Society at Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich.
In 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Josef Drexl, I defended my PhD thesis titled “Patent Aggregation, Innovation and EU Competition Law” before the universities of Augsburg and Maastricht jointly, obtaining the highest academic distinctions. In 2018, I received a second-level master’s degree in “Internet Ecosystem” from the University of Pisa, with a first-class dissertation on credit data in the EU, taking advantage of a research grant at the Bank of Italy. In 2016, I graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florence with a dissertation on standard-essential patents and competition law, supervisor Prof. Lorenzo Stanghellini, that won the Elena Messina Dissertation Prize.
I work in Italian and English and understand French.
Publications
- ‘Position Statement on the European Commission’s Proposal for a SEPs Regulation’, with Igor Nikolic and others, Robert Schuman Center Research Paper 2023/51
- ‘The EC SEP Regulation Proposal: New Rules To Be FRAND?’, Kluwer Competition Law Blog 15/05/2023
- ‘It’s Unfair! Non-Price Exploitation in ICT Patent Licenses’, with Marco Botta, International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law vol. 54 2023
- ‘Standard-essential patents’, Schuman Short #53
- ‘A Bad Dream Come True: ICT Patent Prosecution against EU Competition Law’, 6(2) Market and Competition Law Review vol. 2022
- ‘Handbook 06 – Il Contratto per l’Attivazione di un Percorso di Dottorato Industriale’ editor, Regione Toscana 2022
- ‘Handbook 05 – Il Contratto per il Finanziamento di Borsa di Dottorato di Ricerca’, editor Regione Toscana 2022
- ‘Position Statement on the European Commission’s Call for Evidence for an Impact Assessment on Standard-Essential Patents’, with Igor Nikolic and others, Robert Schuman Center Research Paper 2022/43
- ‘Patent Pools in 5G: Principles for Facilitating Pool Formation and Licensing’, with Igor Nikolic, Telecommunications Policy vol. 46(4) 2022
- ‘Handbook 04 – Il Contratto di Licenza Esclusiva di Invenzione Brevettata e Know-How’, with Giuseppe Pennella and others, Regione Toscana 2021
- ‘Handbook 03 – Il Contratto di Cessione di Brevetto Industriale e Know-How’, with Giuseppe Pennella and others, Regione Toscana 2021
- ‘Auditing of Algorithms: Florence Competition Summer Conference Report’, with Giacomo Calzolari, Robert Schuman Center Working Paper 2021/84
- ‘Handbook 02 – Il Contratto di Ricerca Collaborativa’, with Giuseppe Pennella and others, Regione Toscana 2021
- ‘Patent Aggregation in the Great White North’, Maastricht University IGIR Reporter Blog 17/06/2021
- ‘Handbook 01 – Il Contratto di Ricerca Commissionata’, with Giuseppe Pennella and others, Regione Toscana 2021
- ‘The European Commission Expert Group’s Take on Standard-Essential Patents: A Short Commentary for a Long Report’, with Igor Nikolic, in Jarmila Lazíková, Ľubica Rumanovská (eds) EU Intellectual Property: Innovations and Intellectual Property in Various Fields of Human Life (Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, 2021)
- ‘SEP Expert Group Report: A Look into the IoT Future of SEP Licensing’, con Igor Nikolic, Competition Policy International – IP Columns May 2021
- ‘Patent Aggregation, Innovation and EU Competition Law’, 2020 EIPIN Innovation Society – Scientific Video
- ‘Patent Aggregation in Europe: The Spotlight on Patent Licensing by Patent Aggregators’, 2020 EIPIN Innovation Society Working Paper Series No. 20-03 European Policy for Intellectual Property ‘EPIP’ 2020 Young Scholar Award
- ‘Patent Aggregation Definitions and Taxonomy of its Activities Useful for Competition Law’, in Valeria Falce (ed), Fairness e Innovazione nel Mercato Unico Digitale (Giappichielli, 2020)
- ‘Patent Aggregation: More Than Patent Trolls’, with Dominic Christ and Cornelia Peuser, 2019 les Nouvelles vol. LIV no. 4
- ‘Corte di Cassazione: Haftung von aktiven und passiven Hosting-Providern – RTI v. Yahoo’, 2019 GRUR Int. vol. X, 952
- ‘Patent trolls: not all bad comes to harm’, 2019 Dennemeyer IP Blog
- ‘Patent aggregation, innovation, and competition law: setting the stage’, Maastricht University IGIR Reporter Blog 30/04/2019
- ‘The FRAND Defense up to Huawei/ZTE’ 2016 Bocconi Legal Papers no. 7
Conferences and Seminars
- The proposed EU SEP Regulation, European University Institute, 29 November 2023
- ENTraNCE for Judges 2023 – Final Workshop, Court of Justice of the European Union, 4-6 October 2023
- Emerging Issues in Licensing and Enforcement of SEPs, Polish Academy of Sciences, 7 September 2023
- 18th Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law ‘ASCOLA’, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 30 June 2023
- ICT Standards Regulation: Local Rules, Global Impact?, European University Institute, 27 January 2023
- Florence Seminar on Standard-Essential Patents, European University Institute, 7 October 2022
- ENTraNCE for Judges 2022 – Final Workshop, Court of Justice of the European Union, 28-29 September 2022
- 17th Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law ‘ASCOLA’, Catholic University of Porto, 1 July 2022
- 11th Annual Conference of the Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, 9 June 2022
- Florence Competition Program Brussels Seminar, Bird & Bird Brussels, 19 May 2022
- 16th Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law ‘ASCOLA’, Catholic University of Porto, 3 July 2021
- Law and Technology Lab Seminar Series, University of Windsor, 16 March 2021
- European Law and Economics Association Online Conference 2020, 25 September 2020
- European Intellectual Property Policy 2020 Online Conference, 10 September 2020
- Promoting Innovation in Europe: EUIPO/EIPIN-IS Online Conference, 25 June 2020
- 3rd EIPIN-Innovation Society doctoral seminar, Maastricht University, 21 January 2020
- CEIPI Interdisciplinary Research Week, University of Strasbourg, 29 June 2019
- 1st International Workshop in Law & Economics: Open Innovation, University of Grenoble, 14 June 2019
- Seminar on Innovation Union and Collaborative Economy, European University of Rome, 10 May 2019
- 2nd EIPIN-Innovation Society Doctoral Seminar, Queen Mary University of London, 4 April 2019
- IGIR lunch seminar, Maastricht University, 21 March 2019
- EIPIN Innovation Society Mid-term review, European Commission, 12 March 2019
- Maastricht University Presentation Skills Workshop, Maastricht University, 21 February 2019
- EIPIN Innovation Society Scientific Communication Skills, University of Alicante, 23 January 2019
- MPI-IC Junior Researcher Workshop 2018, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, 11 December 2018
- 2nd Düsseldorf Doctoral Seminar in Economics and Law, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, 28 November 2018
- TILEC 15th anniversary conference, Tilburg University, 9 November 2018
- EIPIN Innovation Society literature seminar, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, 6 September 2018
- EIPIN Innovation Society IP and economic theory, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, 3 September 2018
- Seminar on IP and Competition Law, Munich Centre for Intellectual Property Law, 28 May 2018
- Research Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, 25 May 2018
- 1st EIPIN-Innovation Society doctoral seminar, Université de Strasbourg, 27 April 2018
- Erasmus Early-Career Scholars Conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 13 April 2018
- 19th EIPIN Conference ‘Innovation and the Triple Helix’, Maastricht University, 26 January 2018
- IPKM Macau IP Seminar 2017, Macau Centre for European Studies, 6 November 2017
Where
Main Office
Florence
Via Cavour, 39
50129, Florence
Branch Offices
Forte dei Marmi
Via Cavour, 21
55042, Forte dei Marmi
Livorno
Viale Italia, 219
57126, Livorno