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…
Patents
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…
The Amendment to the Industrial Property Law (IPL), passed by the Sejm (the lower house of the Polish parliament) on 16 October 2019 and two days later by the Senate,…
Consumer demand shapes the development of broadband mobile services. The International Telecommunication Union estimates that mobile internet traffic will rise by 10 to 100 times between 2020 and 2030. The…
The word ‘novelty’ is used in everyday speech in various contexts, therefore it can be understood in many different ways, depending on the circumstances. In industrial property law, the word…
It is becoming increasingly common that buyers expect sellers to make binding guarantees that reselling products purchased from the sellers will not infringe on any third-party patents. Sellers, and importers…
On 4 April 2019 the Minister of Justice submitted a draft bill to amend the Code of Civil Procedure and other acts (No. UD 497 from the list of legislative…
The pharmaceutical industry is divided into two categories of manufacturers: original drug companies and generics companies. Original drug manufacturers are usually those who first look for new molecular targets that…
Can inventions based on artificial intelligence be patented? Until recently, there were no clearly defined rules for applying for protection of solutions related to artificial intelligence and machine learning based…
