Designs

PROSECUTION

• assessment of the chances to obtain design protection, taking the shapes into consideration
• filing design application and handling of the procedures until the protection title is obtained:
  – with ROPTO (Romanian State Office for Patents and Trademarks)
  – with EUIPO (European Union Industrial Property Office)
  – with WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)

• conducting opposition and appeal proceedings of registered designs
  – in front of ROPTO
  – in front of EUIPO

OPINIONS

• availability searches for a design
• assessment of the counterfeiting risk (Freedom-to-Operate)
• professional advice on all the foregoing aspects

RENEWAL AND RECORDAL OF CHANGES IN THE JURIDICAL STATUS

• managing renewals of the registered designs
• registration of changes in the juridical status (change of the owner, change of name or owner address)