According to Polish Patent Office, a Polish patent attorney is a lawyer or engineer who provides legal and technical assistance to businesses, organizational units and individuals in industrial property matters. When it comes to Poland, this profession has quite a long tradition. It appeared during the country reborn after the partitions of Poland. So, now it is more than 100 years old. It is important to mention that just a regular attorney-at-law or barrister will not be able to provide you with all the necessary information that a patent attorney can, since it is completely a different school.
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Who is a patent attorney?
According to Polish Patent Office, a Polish patent attorney is a lawyer or engineer who provides legal and technical assistance to businesses, organizational units and individuals in industrial property matters. When it comes to Poland, this profession has quite a long tradition. It appeared during the country reborn after the partitions of Poland. So, now it is more than 100 years old. It is important to mention that just a regular attorney-at-law or barrister will not be able to provide you with all the necessary information that a patent attorney can, since it is completely a different school.
How to choose a patent attorney?
General advice
First and foremost, when choosing pretty much any lawyer, it sounds banal, but we will repeat that it is 100% better to choose the experienced one. Maybe, you have some friends who are involved in legal industry or they themselves had certain situations when they needed some legal assistance. What if you don’t? Internet is a labyrinth, and it is quite hard to believe the authenticity of those opinions left by “clients”, but what you can actually do is to look for some attorneys, that are having blogs, YouTube channels or any other pages and are writing about what they are doing. This proves that this lawyer is a professional and has extended knowledge in what he/she does, since he/she is not afraid to share his experience with the public.
It is also important to find the attorney who specializes in your case! You may say that patent attorney deals with patents and everything connected to it, so, probably, there is not a wide range of choice… That is a big mistake! The one that has been working with everything connected to biotechnology does not need to be an expert in IT or shipbuilding. So, think about going to the attorney who works with cases just like yours.
Also, remember that if your case concerns a different European country, you need the patent attorney who is the European patent attorney. In order to receive those qualifications, patent attorneys need to pass the EQE exam. Only in that case, he/she will give you the proper legal advice and will be able to represent you at the European Patent Office.
When you have chosen everything right, and you are still not satisfied with the outcome, think about it differently. Lawyers are just like doctors. When the prescribed treatment of one specialist doesn’t work, then it is essential to reach for someone else’s advice. There is a list of patent attorneys in Warsaw, Cracow, Wroclaw and others mentioned on the website of Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys.
