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We are pleased to inform that Mr. Jarosław Sroczyński has been named the Leading Lawyer in the field of competition law in the Legal Ranking of “Rzeczpospolita” 2019. Our law firm was again named as recommended in the field of competition law. We express our thanks to all those who voted for us!

On May 30-31, 2019, Dr. Michał Markiewicz participated as a speaker in the Scientific Symposium „IP Law and Protection of Images Rights” organised by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).
He presented a paper on „Image protection under the copyright law”.
The main topics discussed during the Symposium focused on the creation of effective protection and commercialization of the image.

On May 24, 2019, Mr. Sroczyński delivered a presentation during the International Scientific Academic Conference „Security and regulation on the energy market”, organized at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Łódź. He discussed the issues of “Cooperation of energy entrepreneurs in the field of competition law: between contract and collusion”.

In March 2017, Wolters Kluwer published a new book “Copyright. Commentary on selected case law of the EU Court of Justice”, co-edited by Dr. Ewa Laskowska-Litak i Prof. Ryszard Markiewicz. The publication presents comments of representatives of the Polish doctrine to selected case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and their impact on the Polish regulation of copyright. One of the authors of the Commentary is Dr. Michał Markiewicz. Congratulations!

On March 11-13, 2019, the 19th Cracow Conference – Modern Copyright Law has taken place. Among the speakers were Prof. Ryszard Markiewicz, who discussed the issues of copyright, artificial intelligence (AI) and new copyright disputes, and Dr. Michał Markiewicz, who discussed the combined works, how they are regulated in the Copyright Act, and the essential elements of the contracts concerning combined works.

The new edition of the book “Copyright and related rights”, co-authored by Professors Janusz Barta and Ryszard Markiewicz was published in February 2019.
The publication presents all issues of copyright law including the collective management by special organizations and the protection of databases. Congratulations!

We have the pleasure to inform that as of February 1, 2019, Dr. Michał Wyrwiński has become our new Counsel. Dr. Wyrwiński is an attorney-at-law, specialising in copyright, consumer and internet laws, protection of personal rights and litigation. He is also an assistant professor in the Intellectual Property Law Institute of the Jagiellonian University and author of a large number of legal publications. See the full professional biography of Dr. Michał Wyrwiński.