What is a intellectual property protection?
Intellectual property rights protect intangible assets. Grant Thornton’s legal practice advises businesses in Poland on intellectual property protection, including copyright and trademarks. We help clients properly secure their intellectual property rights and transfer them to other entities. We also provide legal assistance in matters involving infringements of intellectual property rights.
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Who can benefit from intellectual property protection services?
We advise Polish and international businesses, including both large corporations and family-owned companies. We provide legal assistance to companies operating in the creative, e-commerce and IT/TMT sectors.
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What do intellectual property rights cover?
Intellectual property rights protect intangible assets under Polish and EU law. These primarily include copyright works, trademarks and industrial designs. Such rights affect almost every aspect of a company’s operations, including its relationships with employees, business partners and even competitors.
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What are the benefits of protecting intellectual property rights?
Effective intellectual property protection is vital when creating a brand, building its market position and gaining a competitive advantage. Failure to secure intellectual property rights properly may expose a business to claims from creators or allow competitors to copy its solutions. If the business is to be sold, inadequate protection may even cause an investor to withdraw from the transaction.
Intellectual property rights include:
- copyright works, such as advertising slogans, website designs, computer programs and architectural designs;
- solutions such as inventions, i.e. innovative and original technical solutions, utility models, sometimes referred to as minor inventions, and industrial designs, such as product designs;
- designations such as trademarks, including company logos and brands used for goods or services, as well as business names and domain names;
- trade secrets, including know-how
Scope of support
It is advisable to protect your company’s intellectual property from the outset. Our legal advisory services in this area include:
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Advice on the company’s intellectual property protection strategy
We help businesses determine which assets should be protected and how best to protect them.
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Drafting, reviewing and negotiating intellectual property sale and licensing agreements
This includes agreements for the creative sector, agreements transferring trademarks or economic copyrights, agreements with employees and contractors who create intellectual property, coexistence agreements concerning exclusive rights, and agreements governing the use of intellectual property rights within corporate groups.
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Preparing legal opinions on the transfer, acquisition and use of intellectual property rights
This includes legal opinions concerning potential infringements of intellectual property rights.
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Conducting legal audits and legal due diligence
We conduct legal due diligence reviews of intellectual property rights held by clients and target companies in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
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Advising on transactions involving the acquisition and disposal of intellectual property rights
This includes transactions involving copyright and trademarks, as well as the licensing of these rights.
