Intellectual Property Law in Romania

Darie, Manea & Associates advises on intellectual property law in Romania, including obtaining and protecting industrial property rights (trade marks, designs and patents) at national level (OSIM), EU level (EUIPO) and international level (WIPO), and on their enforcement. Our lawyers in Romania can definitely help you in any intellectual property matter.

Trademark Registration in Romania

By the registration of a brand your company acquires exclusive rights to use the trademark, forbidding the competing companies to commercialize identical or similar products or to carry out services under the same brand or under a similar brand with the purpose of creating confusion for the consumers.

The registration of a brand is not a very simple thing taking into consideration the fact that certain conditions must be complied with: To be registered, a trade mark must be distinctive, must not be descriptive or misleading and must not conflict with earlier rights; since 2020 it no longer has to be capable of graphic representation (Law no. 84/1998, republished).. more…

Registration of Industrial Drawings and Models in Romania

From the moment of the registration of the industrial drawing/model, the holder will enjoy an exclusive right for its exploitation, as well as the right of forbidding the third parties to carry out without consent or to reproduce, to fabricate, to commercialize or to offer for sale, to use, to import or to stock in the view of commercializing, offering for sale or the use of any reproduction in which the industrial drawing or model is incorporated or to which this is applied.

By industrial model it is understood the appearance of the whole or a part of a product, rendered in three dimensions, which results from the combination of the main characteristics, especially lines, shapes, colors, the form, the texture and/or the ornamentation of the product. more…

Patent Registration in Romania

By registering an invention and obtaining the invention patent, the holder acquires an exclusive right of restraining any other persons from producing, using, offering for sale or importing a product or a procedure based on the patented invention, without his previous agreement.

The patent can be given for any invention which has as object a product or a procedure, carried out in any of the technologic domains, under the condition that this invention be new, to result from an inventive activity and be susceptible of industrial application. more…