The WTS Patent Attorneys – Witek, Sniezko & Partners is a partnership of patent attorneys. The partnership was formed in 2002 as an initiative of founding partners who made the choice to merge their experience gathered over several years at other patent agencies.
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We are professional representatives before the Polish Patent and Trademark Office, Polish courts, the EUIPO, the EPO and the WIPO, permanently engaged in assisting our clients in procuring and enforcing their rights, particularly patents and trademarks.
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The partnership has specialised in the protection of intellectual property rights in the biotechnology, chemistry, pharmacology, and medical sectors as well as in trademark and design cases.
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The Partnership
The WTS partnership is a patent attorneys practice whose goal is to provide aid in all matters connected with the protection of intellectual property rights, their transfer and commercialisation. The partnership was formed in 2002 as an initiative of founder partners, who made the choice to merge their experience gathered over several years at other patent agencies. The patent attorneys...
The Partnership
Patents and utility models
WTS Patent Attorneys aids its clients in all procedural and legal matters relating to European, International and Polish patent applications, patents, and utility models. Furthermore, we cooperate with numerous foreign attorneys to represent our international clients in Polish and European proceedings dealing with the protection of intellectual property rights. Our services include the...
Patents and utility models
Trademarks
WTS Patent Attorneys assists clients in all procedural and legal matters involved in the filing, opposition, invalidation and appeal procedures pertaining to Polish, European and International trade marks. Furthermore, we cooperate with many international agencies to represent our foreign clients in national matters related to the protection of their trade marks. Our services in this regard...
Trademarks
Pharmaceutical Patent Litigation
WTS Patent Attorneys has specialised in legal advice relating to the identification of and minimizing patent risks inherent in the market entry of pharmaceuticals. Our team has conducted many court processes before the Polish Patent Office and civil courts, in cases concerning patent invalidation as well as matters concerning their infringement. Our experiences: Alendronate patent PL 195 272...
Pharmaceutical Patent Litigation
Patent searches
The decision to obtain patent protection for one´s technical solutions or to market them should be based on the minute knowledge of the state of the art and extant exclusive rights of other parties. A patent search is performed to determine the type and scope of technical solutions related to these solutions in question and ascertain the legal status thereof. The results of such search may be...
Patent searches
Validations of European Patents in Poland
We offer our professional assistance in the procedure for validating granted European Patents before the Polish Patent Office. European patents take effectin designated countries no sooner than upon validation of granted patentsat national Patent Offices. Poland is not a party to the London Agreement. Therefore, in order to validate a European Patent in Poland a translation of...
Validations of European Patents in Poland
Support of the investment process
We provide consulting services to entities who are either planning to invest or are already investing in innovative enterprises. By carrying out IP due diligence (i.e. comprehensive audits), relating to industrial property rights, we are able to assist investors in identifying and evaluating the innovativeness of technologies being reviewed. As part of the audit, we also determine the strength...
Support of the investment process
Other services
The WTS Patent Attorney partnership aids its clients in all procedural and legal matters relating to the broadly understood concept of intellectual property protection. First and foremost, we provide services related to the conduct of proceedings before appropriate national and foreign institutions which are involved in the protection and execution of intellectual property. Our activities in...
Other services
Credentials
Acting on behalf of a renowned in corporated company which had been active for several years on the chemical reagent market and was interested in purchasing a novel technical product, we identified a scientific partner. By conducting patent searches we aided in the verification of the development efforts. Research performed jointly with the scientific partner made it possible to...
CredentialsNews
A meeting concerning the possibilities for launching of the domestic production of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in Poland
On 3 March a meeting concerning the potential of Polish biotechnological and pharmaceutical sectors in the context of launching the domestic production of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 took place. The videoconference was organised at the initiative of members of the government of Poland, which was represented by J. Gowin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development, Labor and Technology,...
Agnieszka Śnieżko recognized in WTR 1000
The newest edition of the World Trademark Review ranking has recently been published and we are excited to inform you that Agnieszka Śnieżko, a partner at our firm, has been recognized there as an outstanding practitioner in the field of trademarks. Agnieszka has been mentioned among recommended experts from Poland: in the ranking she is described as “a great trademark attorney with a...
Anna Gdula and Rafał Witek to take part in the Congress of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
From October 5 to 14 the Congress of International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) will take place. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the event will be held online, however the hosts announced that the virtual platform that will be used will permit to provide an experience as close to a physical presence as possible. Our firm will be represented there by Anna Gdula...
Interview with Targem Translations about an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the IP sector
In last few weeks a New York-based company Targem Translations, specializing in providing clients with legal translation services, extended to us an invitation to take part in an extraordinary project. The vlog Global IP Update consists of a series of conservations with practitioners in the field of IP law coming from diverse jurisdictions: from Brazil and Mexico, through the United Kingdom,...
Katarzyna Borycka-Kiciak, the founder of OASIS Diagnostics represented by WTS, named the Businesswoman of the Year in the category Start-Up of the Year
WTS Patent Attorneys are representing OASIS Diagnostics [Inc.] whose founder and CEO is Katarzyna Borycka-Kiciak. It is a Polish company specialized in medical technologies that has been established with the goal of developing a new method of diagnosing sphincter injuries that may appear particularly after natural child birth. Patents have already been granted in Poland and in Russia, and...
World Intellectual Property Day 2020
Because of the upcoming World Intellectual Property Day (#IPday) WTS Patent Attorneys is preparing something special for you: let us meet in the virtual space and have a talk. Our patent attorneys will be waiting for your e-mails and calls, ready to provide free advice and information in the field of intellectual property law as soon as on next Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM. Perhaps you have...
WTS Patent attorneys have ensured a patent protection for a diagnostic technology developed by Genomtec SA [Inc.]
A company represented by WTS Patent Attorneys, Genomtec has obtained a patent protection for a diagnostic method that permits to minimize drastically size of a laboratory device. Through applying molecular technologies, the company has developed a mobile DNA and RNA analyzer — a laboratory that fits into a user’s pocket. Genomtec ID, a device not much larger than a smartphone, offers...
Patent Attorneys of WTS are helping to ensure a patent protection for the inventions of Biotts, one of the most vibrant biological startups in Central Eastern European area
WTS Patent Attorneys are currently representing before the Polish Patent Office Biotts SA [Inc.], a biotechnological startup based in Wrocław that develops original drug delivery technologies and drug formulas. The company uses unique technologies of production, an innovative approach to processes of bonding substances and advanced knowledge of communication of cells and their mutual...
Important information regarding the functioning of our Office during the state of epidemic declared because of the COVID-19
Dear Colleagues, To begin with, we sincerely hope that you are in good health in those uncertain and difficult times. On last Tuesday the Act of 31 March 2020 amending the act on special solutions concerning preventing, countering and combatting COVID-19, other contagious diseases and crisis situations caused by them, and several other acts, came into force in Poland (we have previously...
The suspension of time limits with regard to the pandemic of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
We are paying close attention to the ongoing legislative procedure in the Polish Sejm concerning the package of legal acts related to combatting the coronavirus SARS-Co-V-2 pandemic. The matter that is of a particular interest to us pertains to the proposed solutions regarding the running of time limits. This problem is addressed by Government’s draft bill of the act amending the act on...