Romanian officials at the Border Customs Office of Constanta, the port city on the coast of Romania, seized products for children's parties, such as paper helmets, plastic straws...

La Roumanie devient le 18e état à ratifier l'Accord sur le Brevet Unitaire. La ratification deviendra effective le 1er septembre 2024. Pour plus d'informations, cliquez ici ! Retrouvez nos récentes...

As previously reported, Romania has deposited its instrument of ratification of the UPC Agreement and will become a UPC member state on 1 September 2024.

On 11 April 2024, Romania published its ratification of the UPC Agreement. The ratification now needs to be deposited with the EU.

Romania will join the Unitary Patent (UP) system starting on September 1, 2024, following the deposit of its instrument of ratification of the Agreement...

Romania becomes the 18th country to ratify the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA).

In June 2024, the EPO notified patent applicants that, in light of Romania's ratification of the UPCA, it will, upon request, allow delayed registration of unitary effect of a European...

As previously reported, Romania will join the Unified Patent Court (UPC) on 1 September 2024. As a consequence, the jurisdiction of the UPC will, from that date, also cover Romania, an additional...

From 1 September 2024 Romania will become the 18th country to participate in the UPC following ratification of the UPC Agreement. This means that any Unitary Patents registered on or after this date.

Romanian customs officials have made several seizures of products believed to be counterfeit, the total value of which is estimated at EUR 164,000 (USD 185,000).

The ROIT refused registration for all goods in Classes 25 and 32 and all services in Class 35.

On 1 January 2012, the contracting parties to the Nice Agreement (defined in the note below), including Romania, adopted the tenth edition of the Nice Classification (the "Tenth Edition").

The Unitary Patent system entered into force on 1 June 2023. In the first year, the European Patent Office received 28450 requests for unitary effect and registered nearly 27700 Unitary Patents.

From 1991, by adopting the new Constitution, Romania has begun to consolidate a real market economy based on principles of the state of law guaranteeing the right of property irrespective of the owner. The transition from a centralized to a market economy is a complex process requiring radical changes in all fields of activity, but first of all in the economic field, Romania has made remarkable steps and has succeeded in reaching international and, in particular, European standard.

August 2018 – Romanian lawmakers are preparing new legislation designed to strengthen the protection of trade secrets.

<P>The regulation of design protection in Romanian law is only of recent date.</P> <P>The first regulation was the Law No. 129/1993 in the field of the industrial property right, followed by Law no. 8/1996 in the field of copyright.</P>

More than two years ago, Romanian legislators introduced the initial draft of Law 112 in an effort to integrate the European Union (EU) 2015 Trademark Directive ...