Our intellectual property attorneys help clients maximise the value of their intellectual property and technology rights and avoid infringement when introducing products to the Moldovan market. We provide comprehensive legal services for a broad range of clients, including multinational corporations, in the registration, protection, enforcement and licensing of trademarks, copyrights and other IP rights. The firm provides transactional representation to a variety of industries, such as manufacturing, entertainment, automotive, food-processing, electronic, and pharmaceutical. Our practice includes:

We offer expertise in all aspects of copyright issues, from registration to protection of copyrights. Our lawyers counsel clients on a wide variety of copyright issues for virtually all types of copyrighted materials. We counsel companies on copyrightable material in the entertainment industry, including film, music, and print publishing transactions.

We cover all aspects of trademark, from analysis and advice on the availability of trademarks and service marks to the correct use, exploitation of trademark rights. Buruiana & Partners helps in obtaining and maintaining registered trademarks, including conducting all necessary trademark searches, filing applications, renewal applications, defending opposition proceedings, and handling other matters that may arise before Moldovan Trademark Office (AGEPI) and before the appropriate authorities and courts.

Expansion in the international markets for goods and services has brought an expansion of opportunities for licensing. Our attorneys provide domestic and foreign clients with legal advice and negotiation assistance in connection with all aspects of licensing arrangements. Our licensing practise covers copyrights, trademarks, patents and know-how. The licensing expertise can include issues such as protection and likelihood of infringement, product liability, export control, performance or enforcement of a license agreement, royalty forms, exclusive or nonexclusive licence, sublicensing, and choice of law.

The international distribution of products and services has brought an increase in trade piracy. Buruiana & Partners advises clients on distribution of products and services, false advertising, methods of preventing unauthorised importation of trademarked and copyrighted goods into Moldova and on compliance with domestic rules of competition.

We provide expertise in trademark, service mark, trade name and trade dress, copyright litigation in the Moldovan courts. Our attorneys are active in all phases of intellectual property litigation. We can obtain temporary restraining oders, injunctions and damages against infringers and importers of illegal counterfeit goods.