Office Address
The Patent Office of the Republic of Poland Al. Niepodleglosci 188/192 00-950 Warsaw Poland |
For enquiries or comments
Information Centre for the Protection of Industrial Property:
Monday – Friday: 8 am – 4 p.m
Tel. (+4822) 579 05 55
E-mail: informacja@uprp.gov.pl
Fax: (+4822) 579 00 01
Website : www.uprp.pl
Free services
We provide access to our database to maintain up-to-date information on the status and details of applications and granted rights. There are various databases for designs, patents and trade marks.
You can also use the collection available at the PPO Reading Room. You can consult paper documents or documents stored on optical discs. These services are free of charge except for the copying and printing services.
Access to these databases can be found at http://grab.uprp.pl/PropertiesProtection/Site%20pages/Quick%20search.aspx?wersja=english
Find below a list of IP actors available in this country. They are classified along the following categories :
Name | Region | Website | |
Continous Training/Education | The Polish Patent Office | all regions | uprp.pl |
The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development | all regions | parp.gov.pl | |
PATLIBs Patent Information Centres | all regions | http://www.epo.org/searching/patlib/directory.html
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Name | Region | Website | |
Initial Training/Education | PATLIBs Patent Information Centres | all regiions | http://www.epo.org/searching/patlib/directory.html
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The Polish Patent Office | all regions |
Name | Region | Website | |
National IP bodies | The Polish Patent Office | all regions | uprp.pl |
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage | all regions | mkidn.gov.pl | |
The Research Centre for Cultivar Testing | all regions | coboru.pl | |
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development | all regions | minrol.gov.pl |
- IP lawyers (non-exhaustive list) (eventually the professional association) ( 1 contact(s) available)
Name | Region | Website | |
IP lawyers (non-exhaustive list) (eventually the professional association) | Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys | all regions |
Name | Region | Website | |
Guidance for financial assistance | The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development | all regions | parp.gov.pl |
National Centre for Research and Development | all regions |
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Center of European Projects Central Information Point for European Funds | all regions | http://www.funduszeeuropejskie.gov.pl/punkty#/
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Name | Region | Website | |
Guidance for valorisation (licencing, sale or any other form of IP transfer) | National Services System for small and medium enterprises coordinated by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development | all regions | http://ksu.parp.gov.pl/pl/oferta_ksu/osrodki_ksu
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Name | Region | Website | |
Organisations combating IP counterfeiting | Polish National Police, Criminal Bureau of the General Police Headquarters Business Fraud Combating Division | all regions | policja.pl |
Ministry of Finance Customs Service IPR Division | all regions | mf.gov.pl |
Name | Region | Website | ||
Other | National Services System for small and medium enterprises coordinated by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development | all regions |
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IP Awareness
The Polish Patent Office (PPO) is active in raising IP awareness among Polish industry, buisness, commerce, indiviudual inventors, higher eductaion institutions.
PPO is promoting knowledge of and demand for intellectual property rights by organising seminars, workshops and a wide range of lectures.
Polish PATLIB centres
The regional patent information centres in Poland are recognised cooperation partners of the PPO in the field of patent information and IP marketing and members of the PATLIB network at the European level.
PATLIB centres in Poland provide information on IP rights, i.e. patents, utility models, trade marks and designs and offer a wide range of search facilities on the spot. The centres frequently organise seminars and other events covering many different aspects of IP protection, including questions of IP information and search.
For a full list of PATLIB centres in Poland, please go to:
http://www.uprp.pl/osrodki-informacji-patentowej/Lead03,278,297,1,index,pl,text/
Information on Polish PATLIBs in English are available at:
www.epo.org/searching/patlib/directory.html
Government Funding
For information about government funding and schemes to support SMEs relating to IP protection in Poland please visit following websites:
Enforcement
Protection of industrial property rights can take place in the courts either by criminal or civil proceedings. However, more extensive results can be achieved in civil proceedings.
A court competent in these proceedings is the District Court.
The holder of the right that has been infringed may require:
- to cease the infringement;
- to surrender unlawfully obtained profits;
- to eliminate the consequences of the infringement;
- to compensate damages in accordance with the general principles of law or by paying a lump sum that would be equal to the license fee.
An additional entitlement of the right holder is to request a publication of a statement in the press concerning infringement.
The person entitled to enforce their claims in case of infringement is:
- the right holder, or
- a licensee (holder of an exclusive licence, recorded in the Patent Register)
The entitled person can enforce their claims for infringement for the period commencing on the day following the publication date of the application in the PPO’s first-level Official Gazette (Biuletyn Urzedu Patentowego).
The claim is barred 3 years after the date on which the right holder learned about the infringement, however not later than 5 years after the infringment occurred.
As for criminal proceeding, the results can be achieved faster although it is necessary for a single infringement to comply with each and every element established in the criminal law.
Examples of criminal actions are as follows:
- arrogating the autorship to oneself;
- misleading another person as to the authorship;
- marking goods with a counterfeit trademark to place them on the market;
- filing another’s invention, utility model, industrial design etc. by anyone who is not entitled to be granted the IP right, in order to be granted a patent, a right of protection or a right in registration.
In order to report offences concerning the misappropriation of IP right, you should call the National Police or inform the Customs.
Publications of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland (PPO)
All publications are available only in Polish. Postage is included in the subscription price. Please send us your order first and we will send you a pro-forma invoice which should be paid within 2 weeks period. Please transfer the money to the following account:
NBP O/O Warszawa 93101010100025832231000000
We will send you an invoice after we have received the money.
PLN (Polish zlotys) | |
Official Journals of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland | |
PPO’s first-level Official Gazette (fortnightly) – Biuletyn Urzedu Patentowego (BUP) Announcements of patent, utility model and trademark applications filed with the Polish Patent Office. Electronic version is available free of charge at: http://ipu2.uprp.pl/wydawnictwa.html
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PPO’s second-level Official Gazette (monthly) – Wiadomosci Urzedu Patentowego (WUP) Announcements of granted patents for inventions, granted rights of protection for utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, geographical indications and topographies of integrated circuits, as well as information on judicial decisions, foreign regulations and statistics. Electronic version is available free of charge at: http://ipu2.uprp.pl/wydawnictwa.html
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Ordinances of the President of the Patent Office, official announcement and communications are published in the Official Journal of the Patent Office. | |
Electronic version is available free of charge at: http://www.uprp.pl/dzienniki-urzedowe-urzedu-patentowego-rp/Lead06,66,1242,3,index,pl,text Full -text patent specifikations in multiple copies An order should contain a list of specifications of interest with classes and subclasses given. The price of individual specifications varies between PLN 2.46 and 7.38 depending on the length of a specification (payable by transfer at monthly intervals, after the receipt of the VAT invoice). Electronic version is available free of charge at: http://pubserv.uprp.pl/PublicationServer/
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For more information on all publications of the PPO and subscription conditions please e-mail:
wydawnictwa@uprp.pl
Address for correspondence:
Patent Office of the Republic of Poland
Al. Niepodleglosci 188/192
00-950 Warsaw
Poland
Phone:(+48 22) 579 01 07, 579 01 13, 579 02 24
Fax: (+48 22) 579 04 55