ROMANIA LAW AND PRACTICE Contributed by: Raluca Vasilescu, Cabinet M. Oproiu and Ioana Gelepu, The Office Litigation & Enforcement
Cabinet M. Oproiu was set up in 1995 by Mar- gareta Oproiu and Raluca Vasilescu, and has become the leading Romanian firm in the niche field of industrial property counselling, being today the second largest in Romania in terms of number of attorneys. Main services include drafting and prosecuting patent applications for both the European Patent Office and Romanian Patent Office, and filing and prosecuting na- tional and European trademark applications. In patent matters, all technical fields are covered. Cabinet M. Oproiu specialises in patent litiga- tion in Romania, including SPC litigation, for all litigation aspects: enforcement, nullification, etc.
Ioana Gelepu The Office Litigation & Enforce - ment was founded by Ioana Gelepu. She has been active for 21 years at two well-known law firms (holding the position of partner in the sec- ond one for 12 years). Ioana decided, starting from 1 March 2023, to change her career path to pursue a boutique litigation approach. The cases handled are exclusively from the litigious or pre-litigious spectrum.
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Raluca Vasilescu is a Patent and Trademark Attorney and European Patent Attorney, and has specialised in patent and trademark prosecution and enforcement in Romania since
Ioana Gelepu has 22 years of experience in dispute resolution, covering an extremely broad range of practice areas, such as commercial, contentious administrative matters (including
1995 as well as in patent proceedings at the European Patent Office since 2003. A Member of the European Patent Institute, ECTA and AIPPI, she wrote the Romanian chapter of Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights through Border Measures (Oxford University Press, 2012) and contributed to Community Trademark Regulation: A Commentary (CH Beck Hart Nomos, 2015) and to the second edition of European Union Trademark Regulation: Article-by-Article Commentary (CH Beck Hart Nomos, 2018); a third edition is pending.
tax and public acquisitions), civil matters, labour law disputes, intellectual property and malpractice. Over time, Ioana Gelepu has been engaged in more than 1,500 mandates relating to litigation.
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