Intellectual property

We support our Clients and advise them on copyrights and related rights (e.g. the right to an artistic performance, right to a phonogram, right to a videogram).

We evaluate the state of copyright ownership and review the legal matters connected with copyrights. We draw up and negotiate contracts for the transfer of authors’ economic rights, license agreements and other contracts related to copyrights. We also provide our Clients with day-to-day advisory services and support them in court disputes related to copyrights (including infringement of rights).

If you have submitted your photos for a competition and you don’t know what rights you have; if on your blog or social media profile you use pictures, graphic art or content that does not belong to you; if you received a copyright infringement cease and desist letters from the producer of a film or game downloaded from the Internet; if your employer uses materials you have created and you are not sure if that entails additional remuneration for you; if someone plagiarised your publications; if you are an actor or musician and want to sign a contract for the participation in a theatre or film production – contact us and we will answer your questions and advise you on further steps or suggest activities that will help solve your problems.

In the “Artists and scientists” section, you will find a more detailed description of the services we offer to artists and scientists particularly.

We provide advisory services in matters related to websites and webpages, including the registration, maintenance and cession of rights to Internet domains. We audit the compliance of websites with legal regulations, as well as advise on the use of copyright-protected elements on them.

If you are a web developer and need a good model contract; if on your blog you use pictures, graphic art and content that does not belong to you; if you have bought an Internet domain which the owner activated for someone else; if you have come across entities that reserve domains almost identical with yours and thus mislead your recipients – contact us and we will answer your questions and advise you on further steps or suggest activities that will help solve your problems.

Trademarks and service marks enable recognising different entrepreneurs. We support our Clients in matters connected with registering Polish and EU trademarks and service marks, monitoring their protection, and advise on trademark distinctiveness. We prepare and negotiate agreements on transferring the rights to trademarks and service marks and license agreements. We represent our Clients in cases before the Polish Patent Office (UPRP), the European Union Intellectual Property Office and in court cases connected with the protection of registered trademarks and service marks (also EU ones).

If you are entitled to the copyright to a work registered as a trademark or service mark without your consent; if an entrepreneur accused you of infringing their right to a trademark or service mark – contact us and we will answer your questions and advise you on further steps or suggest activities that will help solve your problems.

Our firm supports its Clients in matters related to protecting the rights to industrial designs. We monitor the level of their protection and represent Clients in litigations connected with the infringement of rights to industrial designs. We prepare and negotiate agreements on industrial designs, including transferring the rights to industrial designs and license agreements.

If you are entitled to copyrights to a work registered as an industrial design without your consent; if an entrepreneur accused you of infringing their right to an industrial design – contact us and we will answer your questions and advise you on further steps or suggest activities that will help solve your problems.

We advise our Clients in matters connected with patents, including rationalisation projects. We draw up and negotiate agreements transferring the rights to inventions (including patents), license and confidentiality agreements, as well as others. We also represent our Clients in litigations concerning the infringement of rights to inventions (including the author’s right to remuneration).

If you are an inventor or scientific worker and you would like to secure your rights and invention secret in your talks with potential implementing partners or investors, contact us and we will answer your questions and advise you on further steps or suggest activities that will help solve your problems.

We support our Clients in developing their strategy of protecting natural persons’ intellectual property rights, as well as conducting mediation talks and litigation. Please see the “Services” section to learn more about our specialisation in court disputes regarding intellectual property rights.