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Markiewicz&Sroczynski GP among the best law firms in the Forbes Poland Best Law Firms 2023 ranking in two areas: 👉 Antitrust / competition and. 👉 Intellectual property. Thank you for the award! To quote from the organizers: “The final list was based on recommendations cast by lawyers working in law firms (peer-to-peer survey) and business clients (e.g. in-house lawyers in corporate legal departments) in 25 different legal fields. More than 15,000 legal experts from across Poland were invited to participate in the survey. The sample was collected through a survey (desk research) based on websites and other publicly available sources.” Read more about this year’s Forbes ranking: https://www.forbes.pl/prawo-i-podatki/najlepsze-kancelarie-polska-2023

In today’s issue of Rzeczpospolita, Dr. Michal Markiewicz writes about trademarks, and more specifically about the obligation to use them – that is, how not to lose the granted right, who must prove the circumstance of use of the sign and how to do it, and possibly how to defend against an attack based on an unused sign and when such defense will not be effective. I invite you to read the article. Publicly available excerpt from the article: https://archiwum.rp.pl/artykul/1492253-Uzywaj-bo-stracisz.html

🔵 The Markiewicz Sroczynski Mioduszewski GP team supports the activities of marketing agencies not only from a legal angle but also as a publicist. The latest update of the GPT-4 chat and its consequences for the legal and marketing industry is undoubtedly a hot topic determining the near future on many levels of economic interaction. We encourage you to read the text by attorney Marcin Mioduszewski prepared for the publicrelations.pl portal: “March 14 will go down as an important date for a long time – OpenAI released then an update to GPT-4, a language model-supported artificial intelligence (LLM) called GPT. The latest model shows “human level” in many tests and significantly outperforms previous versions. It is available as a paid version for ChatGPT+ subscribers. What exactly has changed? 👉 Image analysis and understanding: GPT-4 supports both text and images, while the previous version only supported text. 👉 Longer memory – GPT-4 has a maximum token count of 32,768 tokens (in GPT-3.5 it was 4,096 tokens), which allows it to process about 50 pages of text. 👉 Better reasoning and accuracy – with more data and memory, GPT-4 is better at reasoning and generating accurate results. 👉 In addition, it is less likely to generate unsafe results. 👉 Compared to earlier versions of Chat GPT – GPT-4 has significantly gained in response quality. The model performs better at distinguishing truth from falsehood, although it can still make mistakes and this should be kept in mind.” ➡️ Article link: https://publicrelations.pl/najnowsza-aktualizacja-chat-gpt-4

The 5(11) issue of the online Antitrust and Regulatory Quarterly has just been published and in it is an article co-authored by attorney Zuzanna Ochońska-Borowska and Anna Pietrzyk of Markiewicz&Sroczyński entitled “Marking the geographical origin of a product in times of consumer patriotism.” The article addresses the following issues, among others: 👉 Is the geographic origin of the product being purchased one of the important criteria for consumers’ purchase decision? 👉 Can interest in native products be exploited by dishonest entrepreneurs? 👉 What method of marking the geographic origin of a product could potentially be considered untrustworthy? 👉 Which common regulations could pose a challenge in consumer marketing practice? iKAR is an academic periodical published by the Center for Antitrust and Regulatory Studies (CARS), established at the UW Faculty of Management on February 21, 2007. To quote from the Publisher: “Issue 5(11)/2022, devoted to the latest issues in consumer law, was edited by Dr. Monika Namysłowska, Professor at the UW and Dr. Agnieszka Jablonowska, post-doc at the Institute of Private Law, Leiden University.” Open access excerpt from the article: https://ikar.wz.uw.edu.pl/images/numery/ikar_5_11/iKAR_511-22_4Ochonska-BorowskaPietrzyk.pdf

Attorney Jaroslaw Sroczynski has again been recommended in the Competition/Antitrust field within the international ranking organized by Chambers. Congratulations to all the awardees! More about the ranking: https://chambers.com/lawyer/jaroslaw-sroczynski-europe-7:324688

In today’s issue of Rzeczpospolita, Dr. Michal Markiewicz writes about fields of exploitation in copyright agreements – what the pitfalls associated with them are and how to salvage erroneously written agreements. Publicly available excerpt from the article: https://archiwum.rp.pl/artykul/1491345-Umowy-w-prawie-autorskim.html

In a recent post on law.pl, Dr. Michal Markiewicz, together with Ewelina Bosek, write about the word and figurative mark of the renowned Rolex. They point to an interesting decision of the (EU) Court, which resulted in the acceptance of the registration of a mark using a very similar crown – why did the Court allow it? How to protect a reputable mark? We invite you to read. “5 minutes about IP” is a joint initiative of Markiewicz & Sroczynski GP and Wolters Kluwer Polska, entirely devoted to issues related to intellectual property law (i.e.: copyright, industrial property and combating unfair competition). The “5 minutes about IPR” texts will appear at least twice a month. The premise here is to take you 5 minutes to pay attention to something we are passionate about and you will be interested in. The articles will therefore be short, clear and, if possible, also “illustrated”. We would like “5 Minutes on IPR” to become a source of knowledge about important changes and rulings, an inspiration for discussion, and a source of new, including controversial, interpretive ideas. Above all, however, we hope that it will be simply interesting. Full article: https://www.prawo.pl/biznes/rolex-nie-wygral-sporu-o-znak-towarowy,520062.html Section “5 minutes about IPR” on law.pl: https://www.prawo.pl/prawo/5-minut-o-pwi,518742.html