• sui generis right,
• database author,
• database manufacturer,
• legitimate user,
• extraction,
• reuse,
• substantial part,

Ciprian Raul Romițan*

Abstract

Directive 96/9 establishes two forms of legal database protection, i.e. through copyright and it is applicable to databases that, through the selection or arrangement of their items, constitute the author’s own intellectual creation, and through a sui generis right and it is applicable to databases, whose procurement, verification or content presentation prove a qualitatively or quantitatively substantial investment.

In the Romanian law, this new category of rights of database manufacturers, also referred to as sui generis rights, was regulated under Title II, Chapter VI called „Sui generis rights of database manufacturers” of Law No. 8/1996 on copyright and related rights, as amended by Law No. 285/2004 amending and supplementing Law No. 8/1996 on copyright and related rights.

* Doctor în drept, asociat al SCA „Roș și asociații”, E-mail:Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea.

• industrial property,
• copyright,
• subsidiary rules,
• civil law,
• commercial law,

Alin Speriuși-Vlad**

Abstract

Establishing the structure of the legal regulations in the field of intellectual property is essential, irrespective of their formal, international, regional or national origin in relation to the creation, especially due to the fact that an intellectual creation can benefit from multiple types of protection mainly due to the coexistence of regional, national and international systems of protection corresponding to each category of intellectual creation. Multiple types of protection are addressed particularly due to the fact that a certain intellectual creation, provided it fulfils a number of conditions, may constitute an object for specific protection systems corresponding to several categories of intellectual creations. This analysis aims to annalyze the relation between the civil law, the commercial law and the intellectual property law and to establish the subsidiary rules in the field of intellectual property. In Romania, for instance, this aspect was significant even previous to the new civil code as well as subsequent to it.

* Acknowledgment: Această lucrare a fost finanţată din contractul POSDRU/159/1.5/ S/133255, proiect strategic ID 133255 (2014), cofinanţat din Fondul Social European, prin Programul Operaţional Sectorial Dezvoltarea Resurselor Umane 2007-2013. Studiul a mai fost publicat în „Analele Universității de Vest” din Timișoara, nr. 1/2013, p. 206-224.
** Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea., asistent univ. dr., cercetător post-doctorat la Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara.

• invention,
• counterfeiting,
• utility model,
• product patent,
• process patent,
• protection certificate,

Florea Bujorel*

Abstract

The author considers the amendments to the offence under Article 59 of the Patent Law No. 64/1991 introduced by the Law implementing the Criminal Code. The changes incurred by the incriminating text are examined from the perspective of the legal institutions involved referred to in the current Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code.

Special focus is put on the cause removing the criminal liability of reconciliation and on its effects in the case of the investigated offense. The author undertakes a critical, yet constructive review of the specific elements of the constitutive content of the offense of counterfeiting product and process trademarks, as well as utility models. The scientific approach is also aimed at the specific procedural issues implied by the new amendments to the offense and the regulations of the criminal procedure law. The study addresses legal theoreticians and practitioners alike, providing them systematically with the doctrinal and jurisprudential controversies and with the views of the author with regard to the new Codes in force.

* Conferențiar univ. dr. la Facultatea de Drept și Administrație Publică București din cadrul Universității „Spiru Haret”, Avocat Baroul București, E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea.

• competition law,
• patent,
• exclusive right,
• inventor,
• right of use,

Gheorghe Gheorghiu*
Irina Lisnic**

Abstract

The patent is a title of protection of an intellectual creation that gives the patent holder the exclusive right of use and the right to prevent third parties from using the invention.

Article 31(1) of Law No. 64/1991, republished, enshrines this right: “The patent gives the holder an exclusive right of using the invention throughout its validity”. Thus, the main effect it has on the patent consists in the prerogative it gives the holder and his successors to exclusively use the patented invention throughout the validity of the patent, with the downside of preventing third parties from using the invention. The exclusive right to use the invention is the most important right acknowledged to the holder, which turns into a true exploitation monopoly.

* Conferențiar universitar dr. Universitatea „Valahia” Târgoviște, Avocat Baroul București, E-mail:cabinet Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea.
** Doctorand Universitatea „Nicolae Titulescu” București, Avocat Baroul București, E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea.