TRADE MARKS
Our Office offers comprehensive services relating to trademark application, registration and protection, including:
- assistance in choosing the form of a trademark and the form of protection;
- examination of registrability in national and international databases;
- drafting opinions concerning registrability of trademarks;
- filing trademark applications under the national procedure with the Polish Patent Office, under the international procedure with the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, and under the Community trademark procedure with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante.
- filing trademark application with national Offices of different countries;
- maintenance of exclusive trademark rights;
- introducing changes to registers;
- conducting civil and criminal proceedings relating to infringement of trademark rights, including proceedings before the court Sąd Unijnych Znaków Towarowych I Wzorów Wspólnotowych [European Trademark and Design Court];
- conducting disputes before the Polish Patent Office, administrative courts, before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, and before the European Trademark and Design Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU);
- drafting agreements concerning trademarks, including licence agreements and trademark regulations;
- assignment of exclusive trademark rights;
After obtaining trademark protection:
- we make sure to meet the deadlines for trademark renewal;
- we introduce changes to national, European and international patent registers.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS
We offer comprehensive services relating to application, registration and protection of industrial designs, including:
- examination of registrability of industrial designs in national and international databases;
- drafting opinions concerning registrability of industrial designs;
- preparation of application documents of national industrial designs and Community designs;
- filing industrial design applications under the national procedure with the Polish Patent Office, Community design applications with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and through patent attorneys from other countries – national registrations in foreign Patent Offices;
- maintenance of exclusive rights;
- conducting civil and criminal proceedings relating to infringement of industrial designs, including before the European Trademark and Design Court;
- conducting disputes before the Polish Patent Office, administrative courts, before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the European Trademark and Design Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU);
- drafting agreements concerning industrial designs, including licence agreements;
- assignment of exclusive industrial design rights;
After obtaining registered rights of an industrial design:
- we make sure to meet the deadlines for renewal of registered rights of industrial design;
- we introduce changes to national, European and international register.
COPYRIGHT
Our Team offers comprehensive services in the field of copyright protection, including:
- counselling, legal and expert opinions in the field of copyright;
- preparation of agreements concerning copyright and management thereof;
- adopting measures to protect personal and property copyrights;
- conducting civil and criminal proceedings concerning protection against infringements of personal and property copyrights.
PATENTS
We offer professional assistance in obtaining patents for inventions and protection rights for utility models, from conducting a patent research (searching for solutions closest to the one filed) through obtaining a patent, to maintaining it in force. Our team offers the following services in particular:
- patent research in national and international databases;
- research in literature, examination of the state of the art.;
- drafting opinions concerning patentability and comparative opinions between technical solutions to assess whether a given solution falls within the scope of patent protection;
- preparation of applications for inventions under the national procedure with the Polish Patent Office and under the international procedure PCT with the International Bureau of WIPO in Geneva, as well as for European patents with the European Patent Office EPO in Munich;
- legal advice, consulting;
- maintenance of granted patents;
- introducing changes to registers;
- assistance in obtaining patents in foreign patent offices;
- conducting civil and criminal proceedings relating to infringement of patents;
- conducting disputes before the Polish Patent Office, administrative courts;
- drafting agreements concerning patents, including licence agreements;
After obtaining a patent:
- we make sure to meet the deadlines for patent renewal;
- we introduce changes to national, European and international patent registers.
LEGAL ASSISTANCE
In the case of infringement of exclusive rights by third parties, as well as in the case of claims brought against you, we offer legal assistance of legal advisors and patent attorneys related to the conduct of civil, criminal and administrative disputes.
- We represent our clients in proceedings concerning infringement of patents, industrial design and trademark rights, as well as in the field of protection against acts of unfair competition;
- We conduct proceedings concerning copyrights and personal rights protection;
- We prepare warning letters in above cases;
- We conduct litigations for invalidation or termination of exclusive rights before the following offices: the Polish Patent Office in Warsaw, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg;
- We conduct proceedings before administrative courts (Provincial Administrative Court [WSA], Supreme Administrative Court [NSA]);
- We conduct proceedings before courts of arbitration regarding domain names.
Legal opinions and agreements
- We have extensive experience in drafting legal opinions in the field of intellectual property, including those concerning the assessment of similarity of individual exclusive rights.
- We prepare analyses to assess whether a given solution falls within the scope of patent protection.
- In the field of trademarks, we examine the similarity between trademarks.
- We also draft opinions with respect to copyright.
