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On 11 October 2018, the ICE Krakow Congress Centre will play host to another edition of the Life Science Open Space. The programme includes a discussion on the topic of new legal regulations and the question of how to have influence on the content of the regulations.

The Life Science & Healthcare industry in Poland is growing intensively and is currently one of the most dynamically developing sectors. In recent years, we have witnessed a growth in demand for products that improve the comfort and quality of life and for revolutionary solutions in medical treatment. More and more businesses and organisations are being established that deal with biotechnology, innovative research and products, and unconventional methods of manufacturing, launching or presenting products on the market. The development of the medical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries is also related to increasingly rapid changes in the legal environment, which is evidenced by the legislative work done at both the EU and the national levels. Changes to the law are inevitable, and very often needed and necessary. The first question, however, is how those changes influence business, science, social and economic environment, consumers and all of the citizens. The second question is whether any of the parties mentioned above can have an influence on the final wording of the regulations.

To get answers to those questions we invite you to attend a presentation by Joanna Uchańska, PhD, Legal Advisor, during the Life Science Open Space.

The Polish Patent Office, the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan invite you to the International Conference “Rethinking Patent Law as an incentive to innovation” The event will be held on 8 and 9 October 2018 in the Centre of Innovation and Technology Transfer Management of the Warsaw University of Technology.

The Conference is one of the events organised as part of the 100^th anniversary of the establishment of the Polish Patent Office and the system of industrial property protection in Poland.

The meeting will discuss the basic functions of patent law in the context of stimulating innovation. A number of recent issues and topics regarding intellectual property management and its commercialisation are also included in the programme.

We are happy to inform you that the Conference will be attended by the Partners from our Law Firm – Professor Elżbieta Traple who will host the panel “Boundaries of patentability” within which Tomasz Targosz, PhD, will give a lecture entitled “Second medical use patents and the boundaries of patent law”. In addition, the opening speeches will include a lecture by Professor of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Paweł Podrecki, PhD, Habil.

On behalf of the organisers of the Conference, we would like to kindly invite you to participate.

On 5 July 2018, the Ministry of Health announced that the issue of genetic research and biobanking will be regulated under Polish law. This is one of the elements of a large package of legislative changes regarding the expansion of the research and development sector on the biomedical and pharmaceutical market and on the market of scientific research.

Strategic talks about the upcoming changes will be held on 17 September 2018 in Krakow during the Second VIP Breakfast of the Life Science Cluster.

The meeting will be hosted by Joanna Uchańska, PhD, Legal Advisor of the Life Science and Healthcare Department.

For more information about the event, visit the Krakow Life Science Cluster website.

We invite you to participate in the workshops on “Bank vs. Client – Responsibility of Parties in Electronic Banking” which will take place on 10-11 September 2018 at the Westin Warsaw Hotel.

On the first day, Jan Byrski, PhD, attorney-at-law, head of the FinTech team, will speak about “GDPR vs. PSD II – Issues Relating to Uniform Formulation of Disclosure Obligations Towards a Client”.

For more information about the event see the website of the organiser: MM Conferences.

On 10 September 2018, a workshop entitled “GDPR in Public Contracts” will be held in Warsaw.

The meeting will be led by our experts: Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law; Agnieszka Wachowska, Legal Advisor; Tomasz Krzyżanowski, Legal Advisor; Piotr Nepelski, Legal Advisor, and Katarzyna Syska, Attorney-at-Law.

During the workshops, participants will broaden their knowledge and learn more about the following:

• How the new regulations regarding Personal Data Protection provided for in the GDPR will affect modes and procedures for granting Public Contracts
• What is the responsibility of public entities (clients) on the basis of GDPR
• What are the functional and non-functional requirements of IT systems
• Privacy by design a description of the contract
• What are the sanctions for breaching GDPR regulations
• How to shape content for agreement templates according to the requirements of GDPR in proceedings for granting Public Contracts
• How to review concluded agreements and amendments in the context of GDPR requirements
• What is certification about in the context of GDPR

The event is organised by Puls Biznesu. The Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy law firm is a content-related partner of this event.

On 5-6 July 2018, a workshop on GDPR 2018 – Compliance of Businesses with the General Data Protection Regulation will be held in Stare Jabłonki.

The aim of the session is to discuss the practical aspects of ensuring compliance of the activity of businesses with the new regulations and to present those alignment measures and their schedule as well as the current state of adjustment of Polish law to GDPR. The meeting will also be an opportunity to check whether the new provisions on the protection of personal data have been correctly implemented.

Workshops are addressed in particular to lawyers and other persons professionally involved in the protection of personal data, especially to information security administrators and entrepreneurs.

The meeting will be hosted by our experts – Xawery Konarski, attorney-at-law and Katarzyna Syska, attorney-at-law.

The event is organised by Beck Akademia. The Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy law firm is a content-related partner of this event.

IAB Poland invites you to a training session on How to implement the GDPR in the interactive industry which will be held in Warsaw on 27-28 June 2018.

During the two-day comprehensive training session, its participants will learn about the new provisions and the procedure for implementing the GDPR with account taken of the specific nature and the requirements of the interactive industry. The programme of the meeting includes:

• an analysis of the complete checklist of all the actions that need to be implemented,
• discussion of the key issues that have been identified, and examples of proposed solutions.

The training will be held by Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law. 

A scientific symposium on “Intellectual Property in the Context of the Digital World” organised by the Polish Patent Office will be held on 21-22 June 2018 in the Bellotto hotel in Warsaw.

The programme of the symposium includes the following thematic panels:

• Possibilities of legal protection of intellectual property on the Internet;
• Legal boundaries of parody and criticism on the Internet;
• Effective protection of Internet domains and trademarks;
• Protection of intellectual property in computer games.

We are pleased to announce that on the second day of the event Prof. of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences Paweł Podrecki, PhD, Habil. will participate in the discussion panel entitled “Effective protection of Internet domains and trademarks”.

The symposium is addressed to professionals in the area of intellectual property law, especially to lawyers and representatives of the scientific circles. Admission is free of charge.

On 7 June 2018, a workshop on “Trademark protection after changes in Polish and EU law” will be held in Warsaw.

The years 2016 and 2017 have brought significant changes in the field of trademark law. The changes concern all aspects of this area, starting from procedures related to obtaining the right to the mark, through changing the definition of trademark, to the scope of the protection itself. The experts coaching the session will present the scope of those changes as well as their practical consequences, which may have a bearing on every business. Moreover, 2018 will most likely bring further changes, primarily in the area of liability for violation of trademark rights.
The training should answer the following questions: What can be protected as trademark? Can a video or a GIF be a trademark? What actions can be considered as a violation of trademark rights? Who can be a potential infringer of trademark rights?

The training session will be hosted by Anna Sokołowska-Ławniczak, Patent Attorney and Aleksandra Młoczkowska, Patent Attorney.

The organiser of the meeting is Centrum Promocji Informatyki.

On 5-6 June 2018, a workshop on IT Contracts – problems, doubts, solutions will be held in the Westin Hotel in Warsaw.

On the first and second day of the meeting, we invite you to participate in lectures with experts from our office:

• “The most common mistakes in contracts and the resulting disputes” – Agnieszka Wachowska, Legal Advisor, Joanna Jastrząb, Trainee Legal Advisor;
• “Practices and regulations concerning the software contracts” – Agnieszka Wachowska, Legal Advisor, Joanna Jastrząb, Trainee Legal Advisor.

The event is organised by MM Conferences.

Workshops “Protection of business secrets in the light of new regulations: will be held on 14-15 May 2018 in Warsaw.

Workshops on safety of the electronic payments under the PSD 2 and new RTS regimes will be held on 14-15 May 2018 in Warsaw.

The discussion will include the following subjects:

• PSD 2 and RTS in operation of payment service provider,
• practical aspects of PSD 2 implementation,
• risk management of frauds under the PSD 2 regime,
• legal consequences of failure to ensure transaction security,
• new environment of the FinTech industry – new opportunities, new challenges.

Michał Synowiec, a junior associate from our law firm, will discuss the issue of obligations of payment service providers towards supervisory authorities within the scope of serious operational and security incidents.

The organiser of the event is MM Conferences.