Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency described for the first time in 2009 article by Satoshi Nakamoto. Even now, it is not entirely clear who Satoshi Nakamoto is. Possibly, it is a…
The digital revolution has permeated into nearly every industry, and Fintech is no exception. Fintech heralds many changes with its new services, business models and suppliers, which leads to the…
The global coronavirus epidemic does not restrain, but even boosts some businesses that rely heavily on intellectual and industrial property rights. As it is often the case, apart from innovators…
Four regional courts in Warsaw, Lublin, Gdańsk and Poznań and two courts of appeal in Poznań and Warsaw are to be designated as specialized courts to handle intellectual and industrial…
The amended Industrial Property Law becomes effective on 27 February 2020 (Journal of Laws of 26 November 2019, item 2309, the ‘IPL’). The legislator intended to implement into the Polish…
October 2019 saw yet another amendment to the Industrial Property Law adopted the same year. This time the changes concern patents mostly and their main aim is to bring the…
The cosmetics industry is a rapidly growing area – it is estimated that by 2023 its value is will reach more than $800 billion. It comes as no surprise then…
Patents are granted to inventions which meet patentability requirements. The notion of industrial application is defined in the Polish Industrial Property Law. The notion is also used in international conventions and European…
The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced new guidelines for experts which became effective on 1 November 2019. This means that the practice of processing patent applications in EPO is undergoing…
In addition to novelty and industrial application, the inventive step is one of the criteria of assessing inventions. To answer the question of whether an invention involves an inventive step…
Monitoring trends in invention patenting may bring many benefits to businesses and entrepreneurs. One of them is the ability to foresee changes in the markets most relevant to them. This…
