Projects
INTA Roundtable in Bulgaria
On October 28, 2011, the INTA Roundtable on The Enforcement of Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003 - An Important Tool for Brand Protection took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Iana Roueva of PETOSEVIC and Elena Miller of Bojinov & Bojinov, both members of the INTA Anti-Counterfeiting Committee, organized the roundtable.
Over 40 people attended the roundtable, including the Bulgarian Customs Agency, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Sofia City Court, the Supreme Court of Cassation and a number of Bulgarian law firms.
The roundtable covered various topics, such as the need for implementation of the simplified procedure in Bulgaria, the enforcement problems customs officials face, the consequences of Interpretative Ruling No.1/2008 of the Supreme Court of Cassation that legalized parallel import, and the strategies used by brand owners in the fight against counterfeiting.
The speakers were Mrs. Kina Chuturkova, partner and attorney at law at Borislav Boyanov & Co, Mrs. Gergana Cheshmedjieva, a representative of the Bulgarian Customs Agency, Judge Emilia Vassileva, member of the Supreme Court of Cassation, and Mr. Zoran Strsoglavec, the brand protection manager at Nike & Converse for the Balkan region.
INTA Roundtable in Albania
First INTA Roundtable in Albania was organized by PETOSEVIC on February 25, 2011.
The topic of the roundtable focused on a very recent and important development in Albania, the Customs Watch.
There were 28 attendees, including small business owners, judges, lawyers, students, professors, patent and trademark agents and representatives from the Albanian PTO and the Albanian Copyright Office.
The speakers included Irma Cami from PETOŠEVIĆ, Genti Cani, director from Albanian Customs and Matthew Lamberti, an Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordinator for Eastern Europe from the US Embassy in Sofia. The moderator of the roundtable was Mr. Nika, the director of PETOŠEVIĆ Albania.
NATHAN PROJECT
In 2007 and 2008, PETOŠEVIĆ served as a local subcontractor to Nathan Associates, a consulting organization from Arlington, VA, to help implement a project of operational and organizational technical assistance to the Serbian Intellectual Property Office. The project was financed by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA).
The main goal of the project was to help the Serbian IPO to restructure and develop new operational protocols for processing patents and trademarks in order to become an efficient and financially self-sustaining agency.
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Romania Project
PETOŠEVIĆ Romania Project was part of European Union’s PHARE program, which was a financial aid program for the EU candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The project's objective was to upgrade and harmonize intellectual property rights in Romania and to strengthen implementing authorities responsible for intellectual and industrial property protection.
The ultimate goal of the project was to fulfill all requirements related to intellectual and industrial property development in order for Romania to become EU member state in 2007. It was deemed that a proper and strong system of intellectual property rights protection would have a decisive impact both on the stability and the growth of the business environment in this country.