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19 October 2020

Easier Patenting of Computer Inventions

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…

14 March 2020

Recent Changes to Industrial Property Law

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…

15 February 2020

What next after Brexit with EU industrial property rights?

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…

1 February 2020

Warning Against False Decisions About Granting Rights of Protection

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…

7 October 2019

Extension of Protection Right for Trademark

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…

31 July 2019

New Types of Trademark and Way of Their Presentation

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…

6 September 2016

What is Trademark

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…

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