Intellectual Property Rights

• Lawyers
• Mihaela Cristea
• Andrei Coldea

In order to meet its client’s needs, Budusan & Associates offers assistance and legal advice on all intellectual property matters including industrial property rights, copyrights and other related rights.

Our law firm’s main aim is to prevent breaches or failures to acknowledge intellectual property rights over any creations of the mind. Therefore, we assist our clients in their proceedings to register their intellectual property rights such as patents, trademarks and geographical indications, industrial designs and models with any national bodies  – OSIM (State Office for Inventions & Trademarks), international ones – WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) or European – OHIM (The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market).

Our lawyers are dedicated to defending the interests of our clients throughout all stages of the application registration and review procedure, both outside the courtroom and in court, to make sure that registration proofs are issued by the competent authorities and that they protect intellectual property rights over the creations of the mind in question.

Moreover, a significant part of our activity is oriented towards defending and seeking acknowledgement for copyrights and other related rights protected by the law and in accordance with the rules set by the Romanian Office for Copyright.

Therefore, our lawyers offer specialised legal advice on all matters related to the protection of moral rights, which are an indispensable and essential part of copyright. Moreover, we work closely with our clients to choose the best strategy and the most effective steps to be followed for the legitimate use of patrimonial rights and we assist them throughout all stages of these procedures: agreements for the reproduction and dissemination of a work of art, copyright assignment agreements.

In accordance with the legal provisions, anyone found guilty of breaching intellectual property rights shall be civilly and criminally liable. Our litigation attorneys are handling both criminal and civil cases. Our team’s efforts are directed towards securing full compensation for our clients whatever the nature of the proceedings –obtaining precautionary measures to prevent further damages but also any other measures for the acknowledgement of such rights, of their breach and for seeking full compensation in the form of material and moral damages.

Given the economic development and the social progress, where innovation and research play a key role, the protection of copyright is of high importance. Therefore, we assure you that our team will act as your partner and will assist you throughout all stages of the protection and acknowledgement process.