Achievements

Albania

• provides trademark services to
  • One, Coca Cola, Deutsche Telecom, AVA, ROLCO, ESSEX, AMITA, VALENTIN, OASIA, and Sidenor,
• represents the first Albanian engine patent,
• represents a wide range of trademarks including those of
  • telecommunications,
  • soft drinks,
  • tobacco.
• enhanced the Intellectual Property Law Department to provide expanded trademark and industrial design services - prosecution and registration.
  

Bulgaria

• terminated infringements of clients’ intellectual property by closing down illegal production facilities, confiscating or destroying fake products,
• represent a multinational client in the first trademark infringement litigation against a parallel import in Bulgaria,
• participated in the campaign against CD piracy in Bulgaria – acknowledged by the UN Trade Organization as the major success in Central and Eastern Europe fight against IP infringements,
• assisted with the protection of intellectual property for many major companies including
  • Adidas Salomon AG,
  • Allied Domecq,
  • amazon.com,
  • American Standard Inc.,
  • Cadbury Schweppes plc,
  • SmithKline Beecham plc,
  • Coca-Cola,
  • Diageo/UDV,
  • Interbrew S.A.
  • Kraft Jacobs Suchard,
  • Philip Morris,
  • Procter & Gamble.
    

R. Macedonia

• represent clients in the procedures for creation and protection of intellectual property rights at the IPPO - Skopje, the Monopoly Authority, and other governmental authorities and institutions,
• represent foreign multinational companies in the court procedures for protection of intellectual property rights from infringement by domestic entities.
  

Romania

• local counsel to
  • Microsoft Corporation in the acquisition of the intellectual property assets of the Romanian software producer GeCAD Software,
  • Philip Morris Holland B.V. in the acquisition of the Romanian subsidiary of the Greek-based company Papastratos Cigarette Manufacturing SA,
  • Trinity Inc. in restructuring its intellectual property portfolio,
  • Mobifon, the leading mobile communications operator in restructuring its trademark portfolio.
    
• assisted
  • Philip Morris International,
  • Kraft Foods Schweiz Holding AG,
  • The Hearst Corporation
    
• In patent and trademark litigation assisted
  • Lek Pharmaceutical & Chemical Company dd,
  • Philip Morris International,
  • Kraft Foods Schweiz Holding AG.
    

Serbia & Montenegro