Four regional courts in Warsaw, Lublin, Gdańsk and Poznań and two courts of appeal in Poznań and Warsaw are to be designated as specialized courts to handle intellectual and industrial…
Patents
The European Patent Office has refused two European patent applications designating the artificial intelligence called DABUS as an inventor. Application 18275163.6 (EP 3 564 144) dated 17 October 2018 concerns a beverage…
The amended Industrial Property Law becomes effective on 27 February 2020 (Journal of Laws of 26 November 2019, item 2309, the ‘IPL’). The legislator intended to implement into the Polish…
October 2019 saw yet another amendment to the Industrial Property Law adopted the same year. This time the changes concern patents mostly and their main aim is to bring the…
The cosmetics industry is a rapidly growing area – it is estimated that by 2023 its value is will reach more than $800 billion. It comes as no surprise then…
Patents are granted to inventions which meet patentability requirements. The notion of industrial application is defined in the Polish Industrial Property Law. The notion is also used in international conventions and European…
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…
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,…
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…
