For over half a year the world has been functioning in a new mode of “lockdown” and “social distancing”. Although we are gradually becoming used to the new reality as time goes by, we should...
03
Jun
Protection of business secrets in connection with information claim in Industrial Property Law (part 3)
To stay within the theme of information claim introduced by Industrial Property Law dated 30th June 2000 r. (hereinafter referred to as: “IPL”) this article will concern the issue of protection of information provided at...
07
May
Information Claim in Industrial Property Law. Part 2
The previous article presented an informational claim, including its genesis and the previous regulation in the Industrial Property Law dated 30th June 2000 (hereinafter referred to as: “IPL”). Today's article will be devoted to the...
01
Apr
Patent on the service of the State
In less than a week ago the World Health Organisation characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic. It affects people within different and basic aspects of their lives. Nowadays, we ponder how this situation will impact the economy, mainly entrepreneurs. Therefore, the wide discussions about new regulations concerning employees and employers is being conducted. However, my aim is to introduce our Readers- entrepreneurs and often patent holders, to the regulations which allows the State to use their patents in case of a threaten of broadly understood public interest.
04
Mar
Information claim in the Law on Industrial Property. Part 1
Disputes relating to intellectual property rights infringements are complex especially in terms of evidence presented during legal proceedings. On many occasions, such complexity results not only from the key issues of the problem itself but...
16
Apr
The devil is in the details, or from when one should count the 5-year period, during which it is possible not to use one’s trade mark without consequences?
Our clients frequently ask the question when exactly the obligation to start to use a trade mark arises, or in other words, from when the absence of genuine use may render the mark vulnerable to declaring lapse due to non-use. The continuous period, after which the holder of registration is at the latest obliged to put his mark to genuine use, in order to avoid negative consequences for its exclusive right, lasts 5 years.