Industrial property law

In the field of industrial property law, we deal with matters relating to inventions, trade dress, industrial designs, trademarks, geographical indications of goods and integrated circuit layout design protection.

On behalf of our clients, we make claims in the event of a violation of their exclusive rights, we prepare and assist in negotiating contracts, including transfer of right agreements and license agreements, and we also provide extensive legal assistance (legal advice) in this regard.

Unfair competition

Our law firm helps business entities in the case of acts of unfair competition, and thus such behaviors, which consist in:

• such an indication of an enterprise that might mislead customers as to its identity,
• labeling goods or services with false or fraudulent markings that may mislead customers as to the origin of goods, quantity, quality, ingredients, method of manufacturing, suitability, applicability, repair, maintenance or other essential characteristics of goods or services,
• transfer, disclosure or use of third party information being a trade secret,
• imitating the finished product of other entities,
• disseminating false or misleading information about own or another company in order to bring own benefit or cause damage to another company,
• impeding access to the market for other enterprises by selling goods or services below the cost of production or rendering of services, or reselling them below purchase costs in order to eliminate other entities (dumping, dumped prices),
• inducing third parties to refuse to sell to other enterprises or not to buy goods or services from other entrepreneurs, materially unjustified,
• unequal treatment of some customers (boycott of customers or goods, discrimination),
• conducting misleading or for other reasons unlawful advertising (non-factual advertising, comparative advertising, hidden advertising),
• we also deal with matters related to parallel import of goods on the territory of Poland and matters related to internet domains.

Protection of personal rights and image

The specialization of our Law Firm in intellectual property law is inextricably linked to legal issues related to the protection of personal rights and the image. Despite the fact that the first category is protected by the provisions of the Civil Code, and the second by the provisions of the Act on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights, both are often inseparably linked and then we have to deal with the so-called cumulative legal protection. We help our principals, which in this case are usually individuals (but not only) and we take actions to eliminate infringements, and if they have already occurred, remove their consequences and obtain an appropriate financial gratuity for our principals from the person (s) responsible for the infringement.

Press law

The range of our law firm activity also includes legal issues covered by the press law, which complements other areas of our activity, including, in particular, those relating to the protection of personal rights and image, at the time of press releases infringing those rights. We advise people whose rights have been violated by the press release and press publishers.

Advertising law

In the fields of our activities, there are also issues of broadly understood advertising law. We help our clients in situations in which competitors carry out marketing activities by running an unlawful advertisement, being an act of unfair competition or use advertising elements of our principals (using someone else's reputability), which is often also a violation of the provisions of the Act on copyright and neighbouring rights.