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In the 20th edition of the national ranking of law firms 2022 organized by “Rzeczpospolita”, Markiewicz & Sroczynski received recommendations in 4 areas: 1) Competition and antitrust law; 2) Consumer matters; 3) Intellectual and industrial property law; 4) Copyright and Related Rights. Individual recommendations were given to: 1) Prof. Ryszard Markiewicz (“Copyright and Related Rights”); 2) Dr. Michał Markiewicz (“Intellectual and Industrial Property Law”); 3) Jarosław Sroczyński, M.A. (Competition and Antimonopoly Law and Consumer Affairs). These recommendations are made on the basis of indications from other lawyers. We sincerely thank all those who have trusted us! More about the ranking on the Rzeczpospolita website: https://rankingi.rp.pl/rankingkancelarii

An interesting June weekend in beautiful Stockholm. After two years of covid break, another meeting of Cleary Gottlieb alumni. Discussions about the world today from a global perspective and many local ones. Also lots of sightseeing, from the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in historic Villa Åkerlund – thanks to H.E. Erik Ramanathan and Alumnus Ranesh Ramanathan for their hospitality – to an individual trip to the UNESCO-listed Skogskyrkogården forest cemetery, with Greta Garbo’s grave. A few dozen steps up its Meditation Hill – high at first, then lower and lower, as in life.

On 9-10 June in Krakow, IX International Consumer Science Conference was held – “Consumer rights yesterday, today and tomorrow. 60 years of consumer rights” organized by the Association of Consumer Advocates and the Department of Civil, Economic and Private International Law at UEK. On behalf of the Firm, Julian Tateno spoke as part of the panel “The consumer’s right to association and representation.” Julian Tateno spoke. Many thanks to the Organizers and Guests for the invitation and active participation.

Editor R. Krupa-Dąbrowska took up a difficult and sensitive subject, namely compensation for the damage done to the property of Polish entrepreneurs in Ukraine by the Russian aggressor. Lawyers speaking on this topic are considering filing lawsuits against Russia. Today this is rather wishful thinking, but let us hope that one day a special reparation fund will make up for the damage. Link: https://www.prawo.pl/biznes/czy-firma-otrzyma-odszkodowanie-za-zniszczony-majatek-w-ukrainie,515216.html

Issue 1/2022 of Bialystok Legal Studies published an article by Dr. Michał Markiewicz titled: “Public communication of a work on the Internet in EU law (Directive 2001/29 vs. Directive 2019/790) – is there an “identifiable” scope of this right?”. The issues related to the interpretation of the scope of copyright on the Internet are not only, to put it mildly, not obvious, but are further complicated by the implementation of the DSM Directive. In the article the author draws attention inter alia to selected inconsistencies in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU. We invite you to read. http://bsp.uwb.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/173_Book-BSP-27-nr-1.pdf

On April 25 there was a lecture “Law in the fashion industry” conducted for the project “IP STUDENT”. – Scientific Circle of Intellectual Property Law TBSP UJ by Attorney Zuzanna Ochonska. It is always a great pleasure to share our knowledge with a student audience interested in the topic of regulations in the fashion industry.

CARS took on the difficult topic of the effectiveness of antitrust enforcement. At a seminar on March 30, 2022, speakers from the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland and the UK discussed this issue. Important legal and organizational barriers were pointed out by Caroline Cauffman, Małgorzata Kozak, Marta Mackiewicz, Jurgita Malinauskaite, Sebastian Peyer, Aleksander Stawicki and Marcin Trepka. Jarosław Sroczyński discussed the passing-on allegation as a potential “circuit breaker” of infringers’ liability in chain-selling cases. Thanks to Dominik Wolski for the invitation and organization of the Seminar, Anna Laszczyk for moderating “my” session, and Maciej Bernatt for the keynote.