As we have written recently disputes concerning domain names can be pursued before common or arbitration courts. The competent court for .PL domains is the Arbitration Court for Domain names Disputes at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and...

A recent judgment of the Court of Appeal in Gdańsk resolving a long-running dispute between two manufacturers and suppliers of building and furniture accessories is worth a closer look because of the Court’s interesting interpretation of the law on industrial designs,...

Judgement of the Warsaw Regional Court of 16th June 2020 (case no. XX GC 1117/16) The claimant, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, entitled from the patent for the use of the active substance in treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, on 1st April 2014 filed a...

We are happy to announce that we have been honored in this year edition of the WTR 1000 ranking devoted to trademark professionals: “Monika Żuraw and Wojciech Gierszewski are considered by competitors to be “two of the best service providers in Poland”. Żuraw is “an...

Judgement of Warsaw Court of Appeals of 9th October 2019 (case no. VII AGa 1570/18)  Intellectual property disputes are usually complex and evoke much emotion. A boundary  between an infringement and its absence is often difficult to clearly and unequivocally...

In ZG Legal’s updates we have written several times about advantages of conciliatory proceedings in IP matters (Link). It is often a very useful and effective tool in Poland to resolve IP disputes. However, in many other types of matters conciliatory proceedings are...