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Council Board of Romanian National Chamber of Industrial Property Attorneys
     1. Florea Ileana - President
     2. Bozioreanu Marius - Vice-president
     3. Ghita Constantin - General Secretary
     4. Velicu Anca - Treasurer
     5. Popa Cristina - Head of professional matters commission, including monitoring the IP assistants’ training
     6. Cocoloi Oana - Head of legislative matters commission
     7. Teodoru Emanuel - Head of internal and external relations commission
     8. Ramazan Alper - Head of admission commission
     9. Faighenov Marioara - Head of monitoring the IP attorneys’ activity commission, including the control over practicing without right the IP attorney profession

The Romanian National Chamber of Industrial Property Attorneys is a professional, non-governmental, apolitical, non-profit organization, having legal status, which carries on its public utility activity at a national level by self-financing, according to the provisions of the Government Ordinance No. 66/17.08.2000 republished, on the grounds of Art. 2 of the Law 331/2006. The Chamber has legal status from September 23, 2000.

The Chamber shall have the following duties: to ensure the exercise of the profession of industrial property attorney while observing the Code of Professional Conduct, to defend the professional interests of its members, to contribute to the improvement of the professional qualification of its members in the industrial property field, to ensure the compliance by its members of the Code of Professional Conduct, to cooperate with similar bodies at national and international level.

According to the provisions of the Government Ordinance No. 66/17.08.2000 republished, the status of industrial property attorney may be acquired by passing an examination before the Romanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (OSIM), but only the attorneys who are members of the Chamber have the right of practice in this profession.
The profession of industrial property attorney is free and independent with autonomous organization and practice, in the conditions stipulated by the present ordinance.

The activity of industrial property attorney consists in rendering specialized assistance in the industrial property field and in representing the interested Romanian and foreign natural and legal persons before the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks as well as before third parties, in the regular procedures.
The objects of the industrial property field are the patents, industrial designs, trademarks and service marks, trade names, indications of origin, geographical indications or appellations of origin, topographies of integrated circuits as well as the suppression of the unfair competition.

The freelance industrial property attorneys carry on their activity in authorized private offices, private offices associated on a contract basis, civil professional companies having the status of legal entities or trade companies having as sole object the activities in the industrial property field.
The industrial property attorney may also exercise his profession as an employee specialized in the industrial property protection field within an enterprise or trade company having another object of activity than the industrial property.

For the three years practice of the assistants, a tutorial body has been created within the Chamber, being constituted of IP attorneys with seniority and experience. The tutors list comprises the following IP attorneys: Tutors list

Now, 261 IP attorneys enlisted in the Chamber works in 164 agencies, cabinets and authorized physical persons.
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