National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 30 months; under Chapter II: 30 months.
Validity: issued after a formal preliminary and full examination – valid for 20 years from the filing date.
Annuities: accumulated and due with the granting decision; subsequent annuities are payable after the anniversary of the filing date.
Opposition: is entitled by a written and well-grounded request to ask for a partial or total cancellation of the granting decision within six months from the publication thereof.
Kinds of protection: trade and service marks words, drawings, composition of colors, plastic forms, phonetic signals, or composition of these elements.
Classification: International.
Obligation to use the registered mark: compulsory. Non-use during any five-year period after the registration may lead to cancellation.
Duration - renewals: 10 years from the filing date, renewable for further periods of 10 years.
Opposition: possible within two months from the publication of the application.
Duration - renewals: after formal and substantive examination: 10 years. Extension: three additional 5-year periods.
Opposition: within two months from its publication anyone may contest the registration of an industrial design at the Patent Office.
Duration – renewals: unlimited
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: available (ICANN UDRP model) before WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.
Area: 237,500 sq. km.
Population: 22,242,000 (2016).
Capital: Bucharest, with 2,106,144 inhabitants (2016).
Language: Romanian.
Currency: leu (plural: lei).
Political situation: Parliamentary Republic; a President of the Republic and two Chambers (Chamber of Deputies and Senate) are elected every four years. Romania is a member of the European Union and NATO.
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