Intellectual Property - MPR Partners

Thorough expertise in Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property has become an ever more important aspect in Romania as the market has evolved towards a much more refined environment where research and development have gained an important place for both domestic and foreign investors present in Romania, and local entertainment and sports related businesses have begun to strive. Starting with trademarks and other distinctive elements used to differentiate and identify one’s business, spanning inventions and industrial designs and ending with copyrights, ensuring maximum legal protection for Intellectual Property is of paramount importance.

Our Intellectual Property team has grown and developed together with the legal and business environment and we stand today as one of the best-prepared and forward looking firms in this field. Our lawyers have gathered outstanding Intellectual Property expertize by dealing with numerous mandates on a wide range of Intellectual Property matters, including on transfers of Intellectual Property as well as international, European and local registration thereof, strategies for transfer and protection of non-registrable rights, defending Intellectual Property rights infringement proceedings, carrying out Intellectual Property enforcement proceedings, due diligence on Intellectual Property rights etc.

Highlights of the assignments which have been handled by our lawyers throughout their practice include advice and representation to:

A Romanian investor, in connection with assignment agreements aimed at acquiring rights for international and European registration of football player names as trade marks;
A major German investor, in connection with the acquisition of the intellectual property rights (patents, designs, trade marks, etc.) pertaining to three freight rail cars manufacturing businesses, including relevant due diligence, drafting and negotiating relevant agreements and subsequent registrations, as well as in connection with patent license agreements and intellectual property rights related clauses in commercial agreements with key customers and suppliers;
A major Romanian security services company, in connection with trademark protection and infringement matters;
A Romanian association aiming to support and promote artists, in all contractual matters pertaining to the organization of an art festival;
One of the most important manufacturers of nutritional and food supplements in Romania, in connection with contract clauses pertaining to Intellectual Property protection as regards the international sale of the client’s products under purchaser’s private label;
One of the largest pharmaceutical companies, in connection with one of the first pharmaceutical patent infringement proceedings in Romania, as well as with a range of other patent protection aspects;
A major Canadian mining company, in connection with the protection of its trademark in Romania;
The largest spirits producer in Romania, in connection with legal action against a competitor that was abusing the trademarks and distinctive elements of the client;
An international, US based, retail chain, in connection with the infringement of its trademarks;
A Dutch spirits producer, in proceedings aimed at cancelling the registration in Romania of a trademark that bore several similarities to the international trademarks of the client;
One of the largest US based pharmaceutical companies, in court proceedings aimed at cancelling registration of a trademark that was confusingly similar to a Non-Proprietary Name of a pharmaceutical substance;
A European pharmaceutical company, in court proceedings against OSIM, related to a trademark application;
One of the largest Romanian oil refineries, in connection with a patent dispute related to a method for oil processing;
Several international investors, in due diligence on some of the largest Intellectual Property portfolios in Romania.

Publications

Chanel v Crepslocker’s Potential Impact on British Trademark Case-law, Lawyer Monthly, July 2021 (ENG)
Chanel v. Crepslocker – does exhaustion apply?, World IP Review, May 2021 (ENG)
Chanel crossing: Where’s the dividing line between luxury item and commodity product?, Edward Fennell’s Legal Diary, June 2021 (ENG)
Recognizing copyright protection of fictional characters in Romania, March 2021 (ENG)
Copyright protection granted to computer programs, article, July 2020 (ENG)

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