The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced new guidelines for experts which became effective on 1 November 2019. This means that the practice of processing patent applications in EPO is undergoing…
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In addition to novelty and industrial application, the inventive step is one of the criteria of assessing inventions. To answer the question of whether an invention involves an inventive step…
Monitoring trends in invention patenting may bring many benefits to businesses and entrepreneurs. One of them is the ability to foresee changes in the markets most relevant to them. This…
The Amendment to the Industrial Property Law (IPL), passed by the Sejm (the lower house of the Polish parliament) on 16 October 2019 and two days later by the Senate,…
EUIPO and the European Commission recently published new reports on intellectual property infringements. They show that although the number of seizures of counterfeit products has been decreasing since 2014, the…
Consumer demand shapes the development of broadband mobile services. The International Telecommunication Union estimates that mobile internet traffic will rise by 10 to 100 times between 2020 and 2030. The…
The word ‘novelty’ is used in everyday speech in various contexts, therefore it can be understood in many different ways, depending on the circumstances. In industrial property law, the word…
It is becoming increasingly common that buyers expect sellers to make binding guarantees that reselling products purchased from the sellers will not infringe on any third-party patents. Sellers, and importers…
For more than twenty years Roger Federer was bound to a sponsorship deal with Nike which included a line of products bearing his “RF” initials. The deal expired in March…
Why is it worthwhile researching a trade mark before filing an application and monitoring it after its registration? 3 years ago, Polish trade mark law underwent some important changes. Previously,…
From 16 March 2019, pursuant to amendments made to the Industrial Property Act (IPA), the procedure for extending protection of a trademark changed. Submission of proper payment has now become…
