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CWB Successful for Renault and Dacia Before the Serbian Supreme Court

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CWB has successfully represented the interests of Renault and its Romanian subsidiary Dacia before the Serbian Supreme Court.

According to CWB, the Serbian Supreme Court confirmed “the first- and second-instance decisions stating that the import and sale of car parts visually identical to those protected by industrial design registrations valid in Serbia constituted industrial design infringement. This final instance decision confirms the first ruling of its kind in Serbian practice related to counterfeit car parts, and is therefore significant because the task of the Supreme Court is to standardize judicial practice, and the lower courts are almost always guided by the views of the Supreme Court.”

CWB also reports that the case concerned “court proceedings against a Serbian company that was distributing replacement headlights, side rearview mirrors, and grilles for the Dacia Sandero car without the plaintiff’s consent. The car parts were visually identical to the original ones protected by Renault’s designs and they bore Dacia’s trademarks.”

The Petosevic team included Senior Associate Branislav Krnetic.

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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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