Romania

Firm overview

MILCEV BURBEA is a team of highly qualified attorneys, resulting from the partnership of two dynamic lawyers, with a strong work ethic and deep knowledge of the Romanian legal system and jurisprudence.

We believe that our advice can and should add real value to clients. So we draw on our intellectual capabilities to conduct thorough research and to provide comprehensive analyses of all the legal issues our clients encounter, offering optimal solutions, on time and efficiently.

The strategic combination of legal, practical and communication skills we offer, results in the highest quality advice, helping our clients succeed.

We believe that what distinguishes us is our approach that treats the clients’ needs as our own and our relationship as a long-term partnership. This manner of work has brought us a deep knowledge of various industries, such as consumer goods, logistics, IT, telecommunications, media and entertainment and a variety of local and international clients that we are proud of.

The firm’s culture is that a case is usually handled by strong teams of 2 to 4 people, depending on the complexity therein, each member being able to provide different experience and ideas so that the chosen strategy and approach and final documents resulted are the most benefit for the Client.

Firm overview

BACIU PARTNERS is a business law firm that stands out thanks to its team members independently acclaimed manner to find different and better answers to client’s questions. Our reputation in the Romanian market is the result of our firm's native enthusiastic spirit that is amplified by our clients’ trust in our commitment to provide outstanding legal assistance in a rapid, accessible, and genuinely useful manner.

We come up with feasible legal alternatives that have a sound touch of business acumen. Such approach is doubled by constant vigilance in the face of ever-changing legislation, advocacy initiatives, and active contributions to the professional associations such as AmCham Romania, Concordia, INTA, ECTA, MARQUES, AIPPI or IMGL. Generally, this positions us as the first to signal and to answer genuinely difficult questions from clients in the areas of practice of our expertise: intellectual property, consumer protection, advertising and other regulatory (AML, data privacy), gaming and gambling, complemented by vital points of view on corporate aspects and dispute resolution.

Our award-winning Intellectual Property practice group expertly combines the in-depth knowledge more commonly associated with boutique IP firms with the broad resources and expertise available in our business law firm, which the business community requires for complex transactional work or dispute resolution. The team’s expertise in Intellectual Property has been sharpened in over 20 years of hands-on engagements in some of the most challenging projects rolled out on the Romanian market. We complement this with our passion, focus and commitment to hard work to each new project.

Our work focuses on brands and trademarks, designs, trade dress and trade names, enforcement and border measures, unfair competition, trade secrets and know-how, copyright and related rights, domain names, IP transactional to include IP drafting, negotiation and management of contracts and due diligence work.

We have the resources and capabilities to ensure assistance and representation in relation to:

• prosecution issues: clear, register and manage all your trademarks and designs, copyright and domain names
• monitoring and opposing to conflicting third party applications
• defending your IP rights by taking pre-trial measures and actions, in active litigation or at the border
• negotiations in transactional matters Protecting your business’ interests and helping you avoid or approach litigation in conflicting situations

BACIU PARTNERS is the umbrella brand for BACIU & ASOCIATII Law Firm, BACIU BENDE IP SRL and BPARTNERS 360 Regulatory SRL.

Firm overview

Lexters is an innovative Romanian boutique law firm specializing in Tech & DeepTech, Intellectual Property & Franchise law, as well as M&A/Corporate practices.

Lexters is dedicated to assisting businesses and entrepreneurs in their journey to expand and succeed, leveraging their intellectual property assets and technological innovations. The firm's vision is to support clients by providing comprehensive legal services that foster growth and innovation.

Our team boasts decades of experience across various domains, including large-scale IP, IT, and network projects, technology transfers and joint ventures. We excel in business process outsourcing, system implementations, and cloud solutions. Additionally, we have extensive expertise in software licensing arrangements and contracts for implementing services and solutions based on innovative and disruptive technologies, such as blockchain, robotic process automation and artificial intelligence.

Firm overview

Founded in March 1995, CABINET M. OPROIU is a professional partnership of industrial property attorneys, engineers, chemists, physicists and attorneys-at-law, all specialized in the field of industrial property rights, based in the city of Bucharest, Romania.

CABINET M. OPROIU is involved exclusively in the field of intellectual property matters. We cover all range from prosecution of patents, trademarks, designs in Romania to litigation for patents, trademarks and designs. In Europe, we file and prosecute European patent applications as well as trademarks and designs before EUIPO (formerly OHIM).

One particular focus is directed towards the prosecution of national and European Patent applications in examination, procedure of revocation and appeal proceedings before the national courts and the European Patent Office, as well as to the national and European trademarks.

Our competitive edge as recognized by our clients refers to patent drafting for the European Patent Office, patent prosecution, prosecution of applications for supplementary protection certificates and to patent litigation (both cancellation and infringement proceedings that include the supplementary protection certificates ) and drafting opinions on the legal validity and infringement of industrial property rights.