Marco Saverio Spolidoro

This paper describes the history and the evolution of intellectual property law chair at Catholic University of Milan, especially speaking about all the professors who have taught during the years, since the foundation of the Faculty of Law.

Starting from the three important writings of the seventies of the Twentieth century, which had an enormous influence on the subsequent doctrine of commercial law and which introduced the typological method in Italy as a reaction to the dogmatism of the jurisprudence, we propose to establish whether and what is their legacy nowadays. Little, except for some respectful but insincere quotes in the footnotes in many later essays. The typological method arose a reaction against the late Nineteenth Century’s dogmatism, but it did not replace it...