The protection of food creations: food design, food lighting and food patenting as the new frontier for gastronomy and food process industry Cesare Galli1 I. Patents and Trade Secret in gastronomy and food process industry. – II. The increasing importance of Food Design. – III. Copyright and gastronomy. – IV. The enforcement of IP rights in the gastronomy field: the need for a pragmatic approach Intellectual property makes a number of legal tools available to the world of food: from patents for inventions, on production methods and also on innovative food and food related products, to designs and models, on the shape and presentation of food products, to copyright for layout and also for food lighting, when a particular form of layout or lighting has creative value. Of course, the choice of appropriate protection must be made on a case-by-case basis and often the possibility of using several legal frameworks cumulatively should also be considered, each for the particular kind of protection it can offer. Keywords: food design, food patenting, food lighting, copyright and gastronomy. I. PATENTS AND TRADE SECRET IN GASTRONOMY AND FOOD PROCESS INDUSTRY PDO/PGI and trademark are not the only area of intellectual property that is relevant to food and gastronomy. Intellectual property makes a number of legal tools available to the world of food: from patents for inventions, on production methods and also on innovative food and food related products, to designs and models, on the shape and presentation of food products, to copyright for layout and also for food lighting, when a particular form of layout or lighting has creative value. DOI 10.60559/gl14 1 University of Parma.
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