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New edition of SME Fund

New edition of SME Fund

The next edition of the SME Fund, which enables funding for small and medium-sized enterprises for the protection of intellectual property rights, is being launched. Grant applications can be submitted from 23 January 2023 until 8 December 2023. A webinar on this edition of the fund will be held on 31 January 2023 at 10:00 CET, aimed at both companies and their attorneys.


Roksana Podkowa
25 January 2023
A brief storm over the right to "revoke" a licence or transfer of rights

A brief storm over the right to "revoke" a licence or transfer of rights

Bumpy road to implementation of the DSM Directive

The controversy surrounding the implementation of Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the digital single market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC (the so-called 'Digital Single Market' Directive, hereinafter the “DSM Directive”) has been ongoing in Poland for several years.


Zuzanna Kietlińska
20 January 2023
Can artificial intelligence be the inventor of resultant patents? DABUS decision (J 8/20)

Can artificial intelligence be the inventor of resultant patents? DABUS decision (J 8/20)

 The Legal Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office, in its decision J 8/20, published with reasons in July this year, confirmed that only a natural person can obtain a patent. Simultaneously, the Board pointed out that inventions made by artificial intelligence systems, are not excluded from patentability under the 1973 European Patent Convention.


Małgorzata Czajkowska
15 December 2022

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