IP Law

IMPORTANT HINT for non-residents (not applicable for convention regulations concerning international applications):

We are kindly informing that any persons not having their domicile or seat in Poland, in proceedings before the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland in matters relating to the filing and processing of applications and maintenance of the protection (including fee payments) of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, geographical indications and topographies of integrated circuits may only act when represented by a patent attorney entered in the Patent Attorneys' Register kept by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland whose address for services is in Poland (Article: 236 of the Industrial Property Law).

• Industrial Property Law  (Word doc.)  (HTML)
• Industrial Property Law as amended by act of 23 January 2004 and act of 29 June 2007 (Word.doc)
• Regulation of Prime Minister of 29 July 2003 on lodging and processing of applications for grant of a supplementary right
  of protection for medicinal products and plant protection products
• Act of 14 March 2003 on filing of European patent applications and the effects of European patents in the Republic of Poland
• Regulation of the Prime Minister of 8 July 2002 on filing and processing of trademark applications

• Regulation of the Prime Minister of 17 September 2001 on filing and processing of patent and utility model applications (as amended on 14 June 2005)

• Regulation of the Prime Minister of 19 October 2001on filing and processing of topography of integrated circuits applications

• Regulation of the Prime Minister of 25 April 2002 on filing and processing geographical indication applications

• Regulation of the Prime Minister of 15 May 2008 on filing in an electronic form of applications for the protection of inventions, medicinal products and plant protection products, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, geographical indications and topographies of integrated circuits, and on carrying out correspondence in an electronic form

• Regulation of the Prime Minister of 30 January 2002 on filing and processing industrial design applications (as amended on 13 June 2005)
  
  Fees:

• Regulation of the Council of Ministries of 2 March 2004 amending the Regulation on fees relating to the protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, geographical indications and topographies of integrated circuits. For table of fees only, click on the link below.
• Table of Fees effective 26 March 2008