Mr. Sroczynski and M&S were again recommended in the Expert Guides Competition and Antitrust 2021 legal ranking. “Expert Guides has been researching the world’s legal market for over 20 years and has become one of the most trusted resources for international buyers of legal services.” (expertguides.com)

On 13-15 September 2021 in Krakow, there was held the XXI Krakow Conference organised by the FORUM Educational Centre within the series MODERN Copyright and Intellectual Property Law. Dr Michał Markiewicz gave a lecture covering two issues: 1) the conflict between registered trademarks taking into account the provisions of the Act on Combating Unfair Competition, and 2) doubts around public communication of a work in CJEU rulings and Directive 2019/790. Prof. Ryszard Markiewicz delivered a lecture on: the principles of legal assessment of short fragments of text on the example of copyright protection of the phrase “To take the train by any means”, NFT technology or “Non-Fungible Token”, as well as “New cases, new images – old and new problems of copyright law (jurisprudence of the Court of Justice, Polish judicial decisions, new challenges for copyright law.