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.
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…
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…