After the European Patent Office (EPO) grants a European patent in which the Republic of Poland has been designated as the country of protection, a validation of the patent is necessary for effective protection of the invention on the territory of Poland.
As of March 17, 2021, the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland introduced the system of “Fast Track” trademarks and industrial designs registration.
One of important changes in the Industrial Property Law Act which came into force last year, concern facilitations for computer inventions. Before the change, the Polish Patent Office was refusing to grant patents for computer inventions, on the basis of…
On February 27, 2020, the amendment to the Industrial Property Law came into force. The introduced changes adjusting Polish law to the European Patent Convention significantly change the patent invalidation procedure, and also give the patent holder the opportunity to…
January 31st, 2020 was the last day of Great Britain membership of the EU and from February 1st this year the Withdrawal Agreement began to apply. The Withdrawal Agreement provides for an 11 month Transition Period — up to the…
In the last year, false decisions about granting rights of trademarks protection appeared. Fabricated letter did not come from the Patent Office, although their contents include the emblem and the full name of the Patent Office. These letters are prepared…
Protection right for the national trademark lasts 10 years. If the protection right holder wants the protection of his trademark to continue, he has to prolong it for subsequent 10-year period. Before March 16th, 2019, in order to do that…
An amendment of the Industrial Property Law enacted on February 20th, 2019, constituting implementation of the Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2015, aiming at approximation of the Member States’ laws on…
A patent for an invention and a protection right for a utility model give the holder the right of exclusive use of the invention or utility model for profit or professionally, as well as the possibility to ban an unauthorized…
In general terms, trademark is a certain designation which may assume various forms and is used by entrepreneurs to designate their goods or services. By way of illustration, when an entrepreneur sells shoes under an abstract name “ShoeEx”, that name…