Magda Popescu is an attorney specialized in intellectual property and cyber law, with more than 18 years of professional experience.
She assists extensively both Romanian and multinational companies in intellectual property matters concerning copyrights and related rights, sui generis database rights, trademarks, industrial designs, domain names, geographical indications, patents, unfair competition associated with the use of brand elements, enforcement of intellectual property rights, as well as in litigation related to such rights.
Magda regularly assists clients with the administration of their IP portfolios (pre-filing clearance searches, filling applications, oppositions, observations, challenges, reexaminations, annulment, assignment, registration of other changes to the legal status, renewals, etc.).
She also has extensive experience in providing legal advice on new technologies (artificial intelligence and machine learning, data analytics, big data, cybercrime – technical scams, business email compromise, phishing and spear phishing, online child exploitation, botnets and malware).
Magda advises clients from a wide range of industry sectors, including multinational companies and organizations or domestic trade associations. She has extensive expertise in assisting software producers and associations of IT&C and software companies in connection with breaches of intellectual property rights, private copying, drafting of legislation, legal training, as well as with audits and licensing aspects. She also provides legal advice on sector specific contracts, anti-trust issues, and other commercial matters in connection with clients’ regular business activity.
In addition, Magda assists clients in arbitration and litigation related to intellectual property rights.
Magda has notable experience with the legislative process and she is a regular speaker at major national and international events focused on IP and IT matters and author of numerous articles in her fields of expertise.

Bar Admissions
Bucharest Bar

Education
University of Bucharest Law School, Law Degree
University of Bucharest Law School, Postgraduate courses on private law
Institute for Business Law and International Cooperation Nicolae Titulescu – Henri Capitant, a jointly administered Institute by the Paris I University Pantheon-Sorbonne and the University of Bucharest Law School, Master Degree in Business Law
The State Office for Inventions and Trademarks, together with the Romanian Industrial Property Attorneys Chamber – Training on Trademarks and Industrial Design, Diploma of Industrial Property Attorney (trademarks and industrial design)
The Ministry of Culture together with the Ministry of Justice – Certificate granting the right to become an authorized translator – law & legal sciences (English/Romanian)
Ministry of Justice – Certification as judicial expert in trademarks and industrial design (suspended)
University of Bucharest Law School and Bucharest Bar – Postgraduate courses of continuous professional training in the new codes – Civil Code, Civil Procedural Code, Criminal Code, Criminal Procedural Code
Certified Information Privacy Professional European Union – CIPP/E
European University Institute Florence, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies – Annual Training in Competition Law and Economics

Professional Associations

• Industrial Property Attorneys Association
• European Trademark and Industrial Design Attorney
• International Association of Privacy Professionals
• International Trademark Association

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