The studio Maffei Alberti has developed noteworthy experience and skills in litigation and extrajudicial proceedings in IT area, particularly relating to patents and trademarks, copyright protection, unfair competition, know-how and the transfer of technologies, as well as in the most current perspective of IT area, such as software protection and, in general, all relevant legal aspects in the information technology sector.

The Firm provides assistance in drafting and negotiating licence agreements and transfer agreements, including franchising and sponsorship.

The studio Maffei Alberti now has twenty years’ specific experience in the field of information technology law, providing assistance on licence and software maintenance agreements, telecommunications systems, protection and transnational data transfer, electronic payment systems and digital signatures. In this field, the Firm has offered, and still offers, legal consultancy for companies working in the field of software development and production for the banking industry and outsourcing of information technology services for credit companies. It has also assisted, and still assists, with the drawing up of agreements and legal documentation for the creation and development of internet portals (sponsorship of sites and banners, supply of databases, e-commerce, etc.), supporting its client companies in the relative judicial, arbitral and extrajudicial controversies, as well as with any problems concerning information technology agreements. The Firm also works in the field of competition law, both within proceedings before the Italian competition authority and providing consultancy for acquisition or "concentration" operations.