In Rzeczpospolita, Dr. Michał Markiewicz writes about industrial designs (design protection) – he draws attention to a new ruling by the EU Court regarding the possibility of testing a design before its registration. The EU Court not only allowed for the testing of a design before its registration, but above all indicated that during a 12-month period (the so-called “grace period”) the creator can also make modifications to the design and register this new (changed in relation to the previously disclosed product) design without fearing that it does not meet the conditions of novelty, but above all of individual character. Link to the article: https://pro.rp.pl/biznes/art42077071-testowanie-nie-przeszkadza-w-rejestracji-wzoru-przemyslowego

When can you sell a used computer game, i.e. exhaustion of rights. “The introduction of a ban on the resale of computer games purchased in electronic form is in accordance with French law. The judgment of the French court, based largely on EU case law, can be considered a kind of application of this case law in practice. Therefore, the interpretation adopted in it can be a valuable guideline for intellectual property law practitioners in Poland and the entire European Union,” writes lawyer Damian Dąbrowski in the latest article for the prawo.pl portal of Wolters Kluwer Polska. The article addresses the following issues: the principle of exhaustion of rights, the development of case law on the principle of exhaustion of rights, and whether a computer game is a computer program. Full article: https://www.prawo.pl/biznes/gra-komputerowa-zakaz-odsprzedazy-zgodny-z-prawem,532163.html Link to the contest website: https://www.prawo.pl/prawo/umowne-wynagrodzenie-autorskie-w-projekcie-nowelizacji,528001.html? The “5 minutes about IP” section: https://www.prawo.pl/prawo/5-minut-o-pwi,518742.html