Fabrizio de Benedetti is the Managing Partner of SIB Società Italiana Brevetti. He is a qualified Italian and European Patent Attorney, Italian and Community Trademark Attorney and Community Design Attorney; he has over 30 years of practice covering all aspects of IP rights.

Fabrizio has contributed extensively to the drafting of intellectual property legislation, taking part in government bodies in charge of revising Italian intellectual property law, preparing an Intellectual Property Code and applying the Madrid Protocol and TRIPS Agreement in Italy.

His comprehensive insight into legislation governing IP in Europe has been an invaluable asset in advising companies on particularly complex points of law and on the application of new provisions at Italian and European level. His clients include multinational companies with a wide range of interests, but also universities and research organisations.

Fabrizio is very active in international intellectual property organizations: he is Council member and former president of ECTA, Council member of FICPI and member of INTA, AIPPI, LES, UNION and AIPLA, as well as of the Institute of International Affairs; he is a foreign member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents and of the Institute of Trademark Attorneys.