Dec, 12th, 2011
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION UNDER EC REVIEW
Facebook faces EU curbs on selling users’ interests to advertisers, notes Daily Telegraph. The controversy around protection of personal data has been stirred soon after Austrian law student Max Schrems decided to ask Facebook for his personal data stored by the social networking service. The answer came as a surprise- 1,222 pages of information, including [...]
Oct, 7th, 2011
‘Invalidity of court-administrative proceedings as a ground for cassation appeal’ by Grzegorz Rzasa
The latest legal monograph by Grzegorz Rząsa explores the problem of the cassation appeal which is a remedy against verdicts issued by Voivodeship Administrative Court, and in principle, decisions closing proceedings. The subject of the work is an analysis of the institution of invalidity of court-administrative proceedings understood as a basis of the cassation appeal. [...]
Oct, 3rd, 2011
Catch me if you can – preliminary injunction practice in Polish life science sector
The article was published in Managing Intellectual Property IP Focus, Life Sciences, in October 2011 Polish life-science-related patent litigation has been on the increase for some years. In this time the courts have tackled a number of substantive legal issues such as equivalents, contributory infringement, validity problems, damages for wrongful preliminary injunctions, etc. The outcome [...]
Sep, 7th, 2011
Revolution in the domain name registration system – ICANN Board’s resolution
On 20 June 2011 on a conference in Singapore the Board of Directors of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a plan to significantly increase the number of generic top-level domains (known also as gTLDs). As ICANN webpage informs: Internet address names will be able to end with almost any word in [...]
Aug, 22nd, 2011
On Christopher Columbus, tobacco and two cities in the US…
Even if two trademarks are almost identical, sometimes there is a long way to prove it…The voyage begins before the Polish Patent Office in November 2006, yet the horizon clears only in June 2011 before the Supreme Administrative Court. In November 2006 the Polish Patent Office granted protection right to the company ‘ORION’ for the [...]
Jul, 12th, 2011
Changes in Polish Business Activity Register – launch of the new system
On July 01, 2011 a new Business Activity Central Register and Information Record system (CEIDG) which is run by the Polish Ministry of Economy was launched. The role of the new system is to considerably limit the time required to register a business activity by enabling such registration via Internet as well as to reduce [...]
Jul, 8th, 2011
New Partner at LDS Lazewski, Depo & Partners Law Office
LDS Lazewski, Depo and Partners Law Office announce that in July 2011 Ms. Justyna Rasiewicz, Esq. has joined the Office as a Partner. Justyna Rasiewicz is an attorney-at-law with long experience in handling contentious matters in the field of the intellectual property law as well as unfair competition. Justyna has handled dozens of litigations in [...]
Jul, 5th, 2011
Study on the Overall Functioning of the European Trademark System
The article (Study_European_Trademark_System) of Kerstin Grundig-Schnelle of Lichtenstein, Korner & Partners and Marek Lazewski of LDS Lazewski Depo & Partners both members of the Trademark Office Practices Committee’s OHIM Subcommittee. For any questions on this article contact Marek Lazewski
Jun, 22nd, 2011
Grzegorz Rzasa, PhD
We are proud to announce that on Monday 20 June, our senior associate Grzegorz Rząsa, successfully defended his PhD thesis on the nullity of proceedings before administrative courts as a ground for cassation to the Supreme Administrative Court and has been awarded an academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy on the faculty of Law and [...]
Jun, 14th, 2011
End of reasonable customer standard in Poland in relation to agricultural and food products?
The Polish Act on Market Quality of Agricultural and Food products states that the labeling of food products should not result in consumer confusion, especially as to the characteristics of the product, including, inter alia, its ingredients, source or place of origin. Undoubtedly, the likelihood of consumer confusion should be assessed bearing in mind [...]