The Austrian Patent Office, and The State Office for Inventions and Trademarks of Romania,hereinafter referred to as “Offices”

Expressing their willingness to establish a cooperation with a view to promoting more favourable conditions for the mutual protection and exploitation of industrial property rights, namely, in the field of inventions, industrial designs, trademarks, geographical indications and topographies of integrated circuits,

Expressing their willingness to contribute to the development of the industrial property protection and the scientific and technical cooperation between Austria and Romania,have agreed as follows:

ARTICLE 1

The Offices shall undertake all necessary measures to develop and intensify their relationship by means of mutual exchange of experience and assistance with a view to solving any aspect of mutual interest and to harmonizing the Romanian legislation with the Community legislation and the TRIPs Agreement.

ARTICLE 2

The cooperation shall take the exchange form of:

1. - information:

a) on the evolution of legislation, of bilateral and international treaties and of national texts implementing said treaties,

b) on the technical know-how and used methods in the drawing up of search report and examination field by constituing consultative groups, if necessary,

c) on the organisation and administration of Offices and on any important change in the respective field,

d) on the computerized system in the drawing up of search report, examination and search field and, especially, on the technical know-how and the used material,

e) on the difficulties in the field of inventions, industrial designs, trademarks, appelations of origin, topographies of integrated circuits,

f) on the training policy of staff by specialisation programmes or workshops,

g) on the organisation of conferences, lectures and seminars,

h) on the relations that the Offices maintain with scientific and professional media,

i) on the development of specialized services for industry and, especially, on training, information and communication technics,

j) on the awareness of industrial property protection for Austrian applicants in Romania and for Romanian applicants in Austria and on its promotion.

2. - technicians and other experts (hereinafter reffered to as “specialists”),

3. - publications, in accordance with the modalities mutually agreed upon.
The publication exchange shall particularly include:
- the Austrian Patent documents - 1 paper sample, 1 CD-ROM
- the Austrian Utility Model documents - on CD-ROM
- the Austrian Patent Gazette - 1 paper sample
- the Austrian Trademark Gazette - 1 paper sample
- the Austrian Utility Model Gazette - 1 paper sample
- the Austrian Design Gazette - 1 paper sample
- the Annual Report of the Austrian Patent Office
- the Romanian Patent documents - if possible, on CD-ROM
- the Romanian Patent Gazette
- the Romanian Trademark Gazette
- the Romanian Design Gazette
- the Romanian Review
- the Annual Report of the Romanian Patent Office

4. - Both Offices shall agree on the mutual support and exchange of patent documents and literature.

ARTICLE 3

The Offices shall establish special programmes on the objectives as well as on the cooperation modalities. Their approval shall make the subject-matter of exchange of letters.