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The law firm focuses on the issues covering broadly understood intellectual property law, offering both legal and patent attorney services. We also specialise in ongoing legal services for entrepreneurs, medical law, protection of personal data as well as life science and e-commerce issues.
Experience
and knowledge
We advise Polish and foreign clients from various industries, industry associations, and universities.
Our portfolio includes global reach companies as well as medium and small entrepreneurs.
We successfully run domestic and international projects,
in cooperation with foreign
law firms.


We represent
our clients:
before the Polish Patent Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization

We represent
our clients:
before the Polish Patent Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization

in negotiations, mediations, arbitration proceedings, including those concerning Internet domains, in processes for obtaining the funding

before civil, criminal and administrative courts, including the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court, the National Revenue Administration

advising in the protection strategy, including start-up projects, preparing contracts and other legal documents, assessing the chance of obtaining exclusive rights

News
A battle about the use of trademarks by sponsors of a speedway club
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...
read moreWhat does the Supreme Court say about conciliatory proceedings (recent Polish jurisprudence)
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...
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Co-operation as an obstacle to a trademark registration
The case which is the subject of a recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerns relatively frequent situations of disloyalty consisting in a trademark application by a former distributor, representative or agent. Judgment of the CJEU...
read moreConciliatory proceedings as an alternative to a lawsuit
In intellectual property cases litigations are most often considered a necessity when negotiations fail. An alternative to a lawsuit is conciliatory proceedings, provided for in article 184 Act of 1 November 1964 Code of Civil Procedure. Submitting a motion for...
read moreSweet disputes in Poland – MICHAŁKI candies
A market success on a FMCG market largely depends on the presentation of the product, in particular the packaging and designations. Therefore, producers care about the attractiveness of the appearance of a product, a brand recognition, and a clear distinction from...
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Contact
We invite you to contact us in one of our offices in Warsaw and Gdansk
Gdańsk
Płowce 11
80-153 Gdańsk
tel. +48 (58) 526 55 44
fax +48 (58) 526 55 99
Warsaw
Sobieszyńska St., no. 35
00-764 Warsaw
tel. +48 664 948 372
fax +48 (58) 526 55 99