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Stoica & Asociatii Successful for Aqua Carpatica in Trademark Litigation

Stoica & Asociatii Successful for Aqua Carpatica in Trademark Litigation

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Stoica & Asociatii has successfully represented Aqua Carpatica before the Romanian High Court of Cassation and Justice in a trademark litigation dispute.

"After a legal battle spanning over seven years, carried out in two procedural cycles, both internally and before European courts, the owners of the trademarks depicting the Aqua Carpatica bottles – Valvis Holding and Carpathian Springs – can enjoy the legal recognition of their registration," Stoica & Asociatii announced. "The HCCJ issued the final judgment, rejecting the trademark annulment action filed by an alleged competitor."

"It was concluded that there was no likelihood of confusion between the previous European trademark of the alleged competitor and the subsequent Aqua Carpatica national trademarks," the firm informed.

"The litigation also had an important European component," Stoica & Asociatii Senior Partner Dragos Bogdan commented. "Both the European Union Intellectual Property Office and European Union courts decided that there was no likelihood of confusion and the customers' European trademarks, identical to those that were the subject of the domestic dispute, were admitted for registration for the entire territory of the European Union."

The Stoica & Asociatii team was led by Founding Partner Valeriu Stoica and included Bogdan and Managing Associate Mihai Stanescu.

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Țuca Zbârcea & Asociații is a full-service independent law firm, employing cross-disciplinary teams of lawyers, insolvency practitioners, tax consultants, IP counsellors, economists and staff members. It also operates a secondary law office in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), and has a ‘best-friend’ agreement with a leading law firm in the Republic of Moldova. In addition, thanks to the firm’s dedicated Foreign Desks, the team provides the full range of services to international investors seeking to gain a foothold or expand their existing operations in Romania. Since 2019, the firm and its tax arm are collaborating with Andersen Global in Romania.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is providing legal services in every aspect of business, covering all major areas of practice: corporate and M&A; litigation and international arbitration; corporate tax; public procurement; TMT; employment; insurance; banking and finance; capital markets; competition; healthcare and pharmaceutical; energy and natural resources; environmental; intellectual property; real estate; regulatory legal services.

Țuca Zbârcea & Asociaţii is a First-Tier law firm in all international legal directories and a multiple award-winning law firm both locally and internationally. It received the CEE Deal of the Year Award (DOTY Awards 2021) and the Law Firm of the Year Award: Romania (IFLR Europe Awards 2021). 

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