- offering legal advice in the field, particularly for trademarks, protected geographical indications, industrial designs and copyright;
- obtaining intellectual property rights (trademarks, protected geographical indications, industrial designs etc.), protected at either the national, the European Union or the international level;
- regular monitoring of trademark applications filed for national, European or international registration, to check for potential conflicts with trademarks owned by you;
- legal assistance and, as the case may be, representation in procedural matters (observations, oppositions, challenges etc.) arising in the process of obtaining an intellectual property right or at a later stage, in front of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development etc.;
- transfer of intellectual property rights (assignment, license etc.), by negotiating, drafting or, as the case may be, reviewing the specific contracts;
- ensuring the publicity requirements specific in the field, through publication in the registries held by the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, the European Union Intellectual Property Office et al.;
- legal assistance and representation in front of the collective administration bodies for copyright, neighbouring rights, the rights of phonogram producers et al. or in front of the Romanian Office for Copyright.
Examples of projects in which I was involved:
- member of the UiPath legal team, charged with negotiating and drafting specific contracts concluded with partners from Europe, the Middle East and Africa;
- assisting associations comprised of meat manufacturers and processors in the process of obtaining protected geographical indications at the European Union level and, subsequently, in disputes regarding the protection of those indications;
- assisting one of the most important national meat manufacturers in various disputes related to the protection and use of certain trademarks;
- assisting an IT start-up in the negotiation of a settlement contract meant to prevent litigation based on the violation of intellectual property rights;
- assisting an important company in the music and entertainment field in the negotiation and conclusion of specific contracts (e.g. assignment of copyright and of neighbouring rights) and in liability claims;
- drafting legal opinions in favour of a foreign education institution on the possibility of patenting an invention in Romania, on priority rights and on the co-ownership regimen with respect to a patent;
- reviewing and amending a contract for the commissioning of future works and for the assignment of copyright in favour of an international production company;
- assisting a production company in negotiating the remuneration of an author of audiovisual works;
- drafting a legal opinion on potential trademark conflicts in favour of one of the largest coffee shop chains in Romania;
- assisting several important authors of musical and audio-visual works in front of the collective administration bodies.