WIPR Annual 2020 Business Brief: Romania

Patents

National applications secure rights only in Romania and will be granted if they are:

i. New (not comprised in the state of the art);

ii. An inventive step (not obvious to a person skilled in the state of the art); and

iii. Susceptible to industrial application.

The minimum official fee is Ä600 ($651). Costs of defending patent rights depend on the owner’s overall strategy and the measures adopted.

Information is available on the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (SOIT) database featuring national applications, a Romanian online patent database and the online register PATREG (European patents with effect in Romania).

Patent applications are also published online, monthly, in the Official Gazette.