11 May 2026
Introduction The creation and development of the legal regime applicable to copyright, related rights and sui generis rights was influenced by constant technological developments. The new and dynamic generative AI technology raises new opportunities and challenges for the current law and rightsholders. There are rich…
4 February 2021
Bad Faith Registration of Trademarks and Repetitive Filings[1] Preamble: TMs registered in ''bad faith'' are deemed to be valid, until cancelled. In major part of EU Member States, issues of bad faith registration are not addressed at the stage of the examination of an application, so that the acquisition of…
16 December 2019
The Romanian implementation of the New Press Publishers Rights Related to Copyright[1] SCPA Florea Gheorghe și Asociații The Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC[2]…
1 June 2016
The Impact of the European Trade Mark Law Reform on the Romanian Legislation[1] * Versiunea în limba română a articolului este disponibilă aici Abstract: The Study analyses the necessary changes of the Romanian legislation as a result of the recently adopted and published Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and…
2 October 2007
Parallel/Grey imports v. Exhaustion[1] I What are grey goods or parallel imported goods? The term „parallel imports” or „grey goods” is not defined by law. In practice, parallel imports are regarded as genuine, original goods, placed on a market in one country by the owner of the intellectual property right…
