IP&Law acts on behalf of our clients in obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights all over the World. We represent directly our clients before the Polish Patent Office, EPO, EUIPO, WIPO IB, we take advantage of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), the Madrid System for registration of trademarks, we file design applications under the Hague System; and we file applications under the Paris Convention in respect of full scope of industrial property.

With the assistance of cooperating patent firms we have obtained patents for our clients’ inventions in the USA, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Brazil, the Russian Federation, Mexico as well as European patents effective in, among others, Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary.

Our services include in particular:

• Filing patent and utility model applications – national applications with the Polish Patent Office, PCT applications, filling applications with the European Patent Office (EPO);
• Registering trademarks in the Polish Patent Office, registering Community Trademarks in the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), registration of trademarks in the Madrid System;
• Registering designs in the Polish Patent Office, registering Community Designs in the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) and in the Hague System;
• Applying for changes in the official registers;
• Litigation and invalidation proceedings before the Polish Patent Office, opposition and invalidation before OHIM, filing appeal against the negative decisions, representing parties before the competent courts and authorities;
• Enforcement of rights, representing parties in infringement proceedings in civil courts, in Community Trademark and Community Design Court;
• Conducting cases and representing the parties in unfair competition matters;
• Border seizures and customs actions against goods infringing of industrial property rights, including patents, trademarks and designs;
• Consultancy, drafting expertise, technical and legal opinions;
• Drafting license agreements, transfer of rights and related agreements;
• Negotiations related to licensing industrial property rights and others;
• Market monitoring, due-diligence activities;
• Conducting searches on patentability and registrability in Poland and abroad, assessment of rights;