We have a long and rich experience in procedures related to the registration of intellectual property rights (IPRs) at the national, European and international level, by assisting and representing clients in front of the Romanian Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM), the Romanian Copyright Office (ORDA), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
We are reputed for assisting and representing clients in litigation and ADR methods for resolving all types of disputes regarding the infringement, cancellation, revocation of all types of IPRs and also domain names, trade names, unfair competition.
Our national, European and international clients range from well-known manufacturers of consumer goods and electronics to food companies and luxury goods companies.
Some relevant cases:
- legal assistance and representation of a reputed company in the food industry in an action for infringement of trade mark rights and for unfair competition;
- legal assistance and representation of a public owned company in a complex litigation related to ownership of its international registered trade marks after the collapse of Communism and the alleged privatization of the company;
- legal assistance of a reputed company in the fashion industry in contractual matters related to the licensing of designs and trade mark rights;
- legal assistance and representation in front of judicial bodies and in the amicable settlement of a dispute arising from the break-up of a renowned rock band regarding the continued exploitation of musical works, the names of the two resulting bands and the graphic representation of the names, subsequently registered as trademarks;
- legal assistance and representation of a well-known company that sells leather products online in an action for infringement of trade mark rights;
- legal assistance and representation of a reputed hotel company in a dispute regarding the collection of royalties by a collective management body for the exploitation of musical works for environmental purposes;
- legal assistance and representation of a software developer in a dispute regarding copyright in a computer program, finalized by an agreement allowing both parties to continue the commercial exploitation of the computer program;
- legal assistance and representation of a well-known production company in an action for infringement of copyright in photographs;
- representing a reputed multinational car manufacturing company in a dispute regarding monetary claims of millions of Euros, filed against it by an inventor, a former employee of the company;
- legal assistance and representation of a commercial company in the field of electronic products in an action for unfair competition and violation of trade secrets through illegal access to an electronic management system;
- legal assistance of a collective management body in arbitration proceedings organized by the Romanian Copyright Office (ORDA) with regard to methodologies for collecting royalties;
- representing a Romanian company in the food industry in litigation regarding an alleged trademark infringement of a reputed multinational dairy company;
- legal assistance and drafting of procedural documents for a national professional association of public interest in an action for cancellation of the registration as a trade mark of the official badge of the lawyers' profession by a third party lacking legal personality;
- representing authors of academic works in litigation regarding alleged acts of plagiarism and copyright infringement.
