GLP is a European IP firm recognized and respected worldwide. The firm specializes in the protection and enforcement of IP rights in Europe and overseas, wherever our Clients operate. GLP brings an instinctive commitment to cultivate all the skills required to deliver world-class services tailored to its Clients.
Since 1967 GLP has grown by word-of-mouth marketing among satisfied Clients that share our top commitment to delivering high-quality services and developing long-term partnerships. We like to be involved because we believe that partnerships ensure our Clients' satisfaction and ours.
In GLP we believe in partnership with our Clients, understanding their real needs, their industry and market, counseling them on the real world with the most efficient solutions to enable them to share the widest range of opportunities.
Clients describe us as “having a very deep knowledge – both technical and legal – and being effective, efficient, flexible, available and pleasant”.
We are a quality top-ranked firm in Europe and in Italy always innovating our approach and looking at each success as a starting point.
We are extremely committed in always providing the best practice. We work in an international market with multi-sized Clients and we strive to use this to spice our approach with all the best flavours we experience or develop over time.
Most of our team has decades of experience in the IP field, from counseling to drafting applications, oppositions, contracts, legal and technical opinions. We draft and prosecute patent, trade mark and design applications all around the world, with the full awareness of the complexity of our work and the full responsibility of the trust our Clients place in us.
We have developed our own anti-counterfeiting system to monitor the web, from market places to social networks, and our IT team is able to meet and exceed every Client’s expectation.
We push our team to communicate and to compare approaches and points of view.
Our knowledge counts over 100,000 cases, and when it comes to each Client, the “C” is in capital letter.
The Legal Department of GLP is headed by the managing partner Davide Luigi Petraz, who has an international experience. Mr. Petraz started his career after an L.L.M in Washington DC. Actually he is a Italian lawyer, a European, Italian and San Marino patent, design and trademark attorney.
Mr. Petraz is Member of the List of Neutrals of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, panelist for .EU domain names and techincal committee of the Italian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Council Member at EPI, Member of Executive Board of AIPPI Italy and Member of ECTA, INTA, LES, AIDB, MARQUES, FICPI and INDICAM.
We now have offices in Udine, Milan, Bologna, Republic of San Marino, Perugia and Zürich.