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Dorota Rzążewska
Managing Partner, European Trade Mark Attorney, Attorney at Law, Registerd EU and Polish Domain Names Arbiter
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Since 2007 Dorota is the Managing Partner in the JWP Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, supervising all intellectual and industrial property litigation cases and domain names and customs proceedings cases.
She is also a Partner at the JWP Legal Advisers.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Warsaw University, MA (Law) and has postgraduated in Copyright and Competition Law Studies at the Cracow Jagiellonian University.
In 1993 she obtained judge qualifications and in 1994 an attorneys at law certificate.
She is a chartered Patent and Trade Mark Attorney since 2002. She is also a registered penalist for arbitration of .pl & .eu domain names.She is a member of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property, International TradeMark Association (INTA), European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA), The Association of European Trade Mark Owners (Marques).
Contributor to the Polish section of the book Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights through Border Measures Law and Practice in the EU edited by Olivier Vrins and Marius Schneider.
Co-author of the Polish Industrial Property Law - Commentary edited by P.Kostańskiego, PhD (C.H.Beck, 2010).
Dorota specialises in litigations with respect to intellectual property and combating unfair competition which are carried out before Courts, Public Prosecutor and Customs Authorities, as well as in inter partes cases before the Patent Office. She also deals with counseling, drafting opinion and agreements as well as disputes in the area of industrial property protection, competition law, copyright, advertisement law and domain names.
Expertise: IP litigation, legal advice and opinion, trade marks, copyrights, domain names, patent infringements, training
Foreign languages: English and Russian
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Magdalena Pietrosiuk
Senior Partner, European Trade Mark Attorney
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Partner in the Jan Wierzchoń and Partners sine 1992, she supervises trade mark and industrial design cases as well as renewals.
Patent and trade mark attorney since 1985.She graduated from the Warsaw High School of Planning and Statistics and from the post-garduate Law and Administration studies at theEuropean High School of Law and Administration.
Shespecialises in cases related to trade mark registration and opposition,as well as in cases concerning unfair competition and copyrights. Shehas very profound experience both in national proceedings before thePolish Patent Office as well as in international ones before the WorldIntelectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and European proceedingsbefore the Organisation for Harmonisation of the Internal Market (OHIM)and the European Patent Office (EPO). Moreover she specialises in trademark prosecution and maintenance, searches,portfolio management andcounselling.
Foreign languages: English
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Jan Wierzchoń
Partner-Founder, European Patent Attorney
Founder of the Jan Wierzchoń & Partners, in charge of patent, utility models and industrial designs’ cases.
Specialised in IP matters since he graduated from the Warsaw Technical University in 1972, and later from the the Cracow Jagiellonian University in IP Law. Active member of the Polish Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys Chamber. Initially, Jan Wierzchoń worked for the largest then state-owned IP agency in Poland, where for a number of years he represented international inventors applying for patents and gained an in-depth expertise, primarily in mechanical and electrical fields. He specialises in patent drafting, patent and design oppositions, appeals, prosecutions, contentious matters and disputes, counselling and developing expert’s reports, and finally in litigations in all areas of the IP law, including prevention of unfair competition.
Expertise: inventions, searches and opinion
