The Industrial Property Organisation of Greece 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, topographies of integrated circuits and utility models,

Expressing their willingness to contribute to the development of the industrial property protection and the scientific and technical cooperation between Greece 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 form of exchange 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 constituting 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, 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 Greek applicants in Romania and for Romanian applicants in Greece and on its promotion.

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

3. - publications, in accordance with the modalities mutually agreed upon.

4. - mutual support 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.

ARTICLE 4

The Offices shall finance the missions of their specialists, unless otherwise agreed upon within the programmes mentioned at article 3.

ARTICLE 5

Both Offices shall agree upon the organisation of a meeting carried on, in principle, once a year, in Romania and Greece, alternately.

ARTICLE 6

The present Agreement shall enter into force on the day of its signature for an indeterminate period.

Either party may terminate the present agreement by a notice sent at least six months in advance.

Done in Bucharest, on May 31st 1999, in Romanian and English, each text being equally authentic.

The Industrial Property Organisation                                                  The State Office for Inventions
of Greece                                                                                          and Trademarks of Romania


Professor George Koumantos                                                             Dipl. Eng. Gábor Varga
President                                                                                          Director General