Raluca Vasilescu

Partner

Eurpean Patent Attorney | Romanian Patent, Trademark and Design Attorney

Raluca Vasilescu is one of the two founding partners of Cabinet M Oproiu.

Areas of Expertise

She is specialized in patent and trademark prosecution and the technical part of the litigations.

With regard to patents, Raluca’s expertise lies in drafting patent applications to be filed with the European Patent Office, International Bureau, as well as with Romanian Patent Office, covering the fields of mechanics/electronics, including artificial intelligence and computer inventions.

With regard to trademarks, her practice concentrates on proceedings before the Romanian Patent Office and the EUIPO, including opposition and appeal proceedings.

Raluca’s competitive edge is the patent drafting and the technical part of the patent litigations.

Memberships

Raluca is member of the European Patent Practice Committee (EPPC) of the European Patent Institute (EPI), co-delegate for Romania for FICPI (Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle) and member of ECTA (European Community Trademark Association).

She is also the vice-president of the Romanian chamber of patent attorneys, and vice-president of Romanian Group of AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle).

Publications

Raluca wrote the Romanian chapter of Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights through Border Measures (Oxford University Press, 2012) and contributed to the first edition called Community Trade Mark Regulation: A Commentary (CH Beck Hart Nomos, 2015) and to the second edition of European Union Trade Mark Regulation: Article-by-Article Commentary (CH Beck Hart Nomos, 2018).

She is frequent contributor to various international publications in the field of patents and trademarks (see the articles section on this website). Raluca is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

You can contact Raluca Vasilescu directly at raluca@oproiu.ro