You can find all the information of Poland about trademarks, patents, utility models, copyrights, registered designs, and all other IP rights.

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 :

 NameRegionWebsite
Continous Training/Education The Polish Patent Office all regionsuprp.pl
 The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development all regionsparp.gov.pl
 

PATLIBs

Patent Information Centres

all regions

http://www.epo.org/searching/patlib/directory.html

 

    
 NameRegionWebsite
Initial Training/Education PATLIBs
Patent Information Centres
 all regiions

http://www.epo.org/searching/patlib/directory.html

 

 The Polish Patent Officeall regions

uprp.pl

 NameRegionWebsite
National IP bodies The Polish Patent Office  all regionsuprp.pl
 The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage  all regionsmkidn.gov.pl
 The Research Centre for Cultivar Testing  all regionscoboru.pl
 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development  all regionsminrol.gov.pl
 NameRegionWebsite
IP lawyers (non-exhaustive list) (eventually the professional association) Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys all regions

http://www.rzecznikpatentowy.org.pl/index.php?gora=5  

 NameRegionWebsite
Guidance for financial assistance The Polish Agency for Enterprise Developmentall regionsparp.gov.pl
 National Centre for Research and Developmentall regions

http://www.ncbir.pl/en/

 

 Center of European Projects
Central Information Point for European Funds
all regions

http://www.funduszeeuropejskie.gov.pl/punkty#/

 

 

 NameRegionWebsite
  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

 

    
 NameRegionWebsite
Organisations combating IP counterfeiting Polish National Police, Criminal Bureau of the General Police Headquarters Business Fraud Combating Divisionall regionspolicja.pl
 Ministry of Finance Customs Service IPR Divisionall regionsmf.gov.pl

 

 NameRegionWebsite
Other National Services System for small and medium enterprises
coordinated by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development
 all regions

 

http://ksu.parp.gov.pl/pl

 

 

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:

http://en.parp.gov.pl

 

 


 

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

 

 

16.80
 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

 

21.00
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/

 

2.46 – 7.38

 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