Industrial property COMBATING UNFAIR COMPETITION

Our lawyers have extensive experience in advising on industrial property law. We provide our services, among others, for companies in the automotive, luxury goods, FMCG, pharmaceutical and cosmetics, new technologies, media and advertising sectors. Our lawyers specialize in issues related to the brand protection, including trademarks and industrial designs infringements.

We also provide comprehensive legal advice in proceedings related to combating unfair competition, including protecting the reputation of enterprises, combating unfair advertising, as well as protecting company’s know-how. We represent clients in IPRs registration proceedings and disputes before Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, the Office of the European Union for Intellectual Property (EUIPO) and the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva.

Within the above field, the most frequent assignments entrusted to our firm include:

developing a coherent brand and industrial property rights protection strategy;
preparing and reviewing contracts related to the IPRs commercialization and audit / due diligence support in this respect;
registration of industrial property rights, including research and preparation of legal opinions on their registrability capacity, as well as portfolio management of these rights;
conducting litigation regarding industrial property rights before the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, administrative courts and EUIPO and higher European instances;
handling disputes related to infringements of industrial property rights and combating acts of unfair competition, both at the pre-court and court stages.