Protect your patent

Protect your patent

Check out the basic information on patent protection and find out how we can take care of it
for property of companies

Basic information

What is this
patent?

Patents are granted for inventions that are new, have the so-called inventive step and suitable for industrial use. The novelty of the invention is considered on a global scale. On the other hand, an appropriate inventive step means that a given solution does not result obviously from the so-called state of the art.

Protection
Patent

Patent protection lasts 20 years from the date of filing an application with the Patent Office. In the case of medicinal products and plant protection products, the legislator provided for the possibility of extending the protection by 5 years, as the so-called supplementary protection right (SPC).

What cannot be protected by a patent?

Patents are not granted for solutions which are not inventions. Moreover, patents are not granted on plant varieties, animal breeds, methods of treating humans and animals with surgical or therapeutic methods, as well as inventions, the use of which would be contrary to public order or morality.

Validation of European patents

After the European patent has been granted by the European Patent Office (EPO), the entitled entity is obliged to validate it before the Polish Patent Office within 3 months from the date of publication (publication B1).

Procedure stages Patent Applications

Registration capacity test

Assessment of the chances of obtaining protection.

Application for registration
Preparation of application documentation
to the competent patent office.

Formal and legal verification
Examination of patent documentation by the Office

Publication
Invention filing notice

Study and report
Substantive analysis of the subject of the notification by the Office

Granting protection
Issuing a decision on granting the right (patent)

Patent protection offers numerous benefits
For your company!

Obtaining protection
inventions

We carry out thorough patent examinations, prepare application documents for the Patent Office, and also undertake all activities related to maintaining the patent in force.

Support in proceedings in case of patent infringement

We support our clients in proceedings before the Patent Office as well as before common and administrative courts.

Comprehensive service of the validation process in Poland

We develop specialized translations of documentation in the European patent validation procedure, and we also handle requests from the PPO during validation.

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Maciej Priebe
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