Arbitrabilità delle controversie in materia di brevetti e di diritto d'autore

Various issues related to the arbitrability of disputes concerning patents for industrial inventions and copyrights are analyzed in view of the characteristics of intellectual property rights. Having overcome the obstacles that prevented the use of arbitration for disputes concerning the validity of patent, which had already been accepted regarding exclusive economic rights for industrial inventions and intellectual works, recent openings toward forms of arbitral resolution also for the protection of moral rights are considered, in line with the evolution of the arbitration law and the implementation of arbitration procedural law.