Mr Marcin Barycki

Patent Attorney
Director of Industrial Property Department

Industrial Property Department provides a complex, regular legal counseling services to companies which either already possess a portfolio of industrial property rights, or intend to develop IP assets.

In order to provide the supreme quality services to the clients, the lawyers working in the Industrial Property Department offer their counsel based on a vast experience in acquiring protection for trademarks, patents, industrial or utility designs, as well as in ascertaining their most efficient enforcement.

Being aware of the key importance of industrial property rights which assist companies in almost every aspect of their business development and competitive strategy: from product development to marketing stage,  we are ready to professionally support its clients in protecting, managing and enforcing industrial property assets, so as to ensure the best possible commercial results from their ownership.

Proficiency of the Industrial Property Department lawyers in the arcane details of registration and enforcement procedures for patents, trademarks or industrial designs, both on national and international or community level, has been for long acknowledged by the clients.

The Industrial Property Department’s service includes:

• filing applications for trademarks,  inventions, utility models and industrial designs in the Polish Patent Office,
• filing applications for Community trademarks and industrial designs in the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM),
• international registration of trademarks according to the Madrid System,
• drafting lists of goods and services,
• litigation before the Polish Patent Office and OHIM,
• enforcement of rights to trademarks, patents, utility models and industrial designs  before national courts,
• enforcement of rights to  trademarks and industrial designs before the Community Trademark and Design Court,
• actions for annulment of trademark rights and proceedings against exclusive rights infringement in Poland,
• anti-piracy actions,
• proceedings against unfair competition,
• watching and monitoring of trademarks,
• searches – patents, trademarks, utility models, industrial designs,
• advice at the stage of company, product or service name selection,
• negotiating in exclusive rights transfer,
• drafting license agreements, transfer of rights agreements and others,
• advice in the field of industrial and intellectual property protection, selection of the most suitable form of protection, formal actions in Poland and abroad,
• legal opinions and expertise,
• other designations issues: trade names, Internet domain names.

Management Service:

• conducting industrial property audit and delivering audit report,
• advice in developing protection strategy and implementing protection strategy in the company,
• advice in creating visual identification of the company,
• maintaining and monitoring protected industrial property rights.