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We are happy to inform you that by virtue of a Resolution of the Board of the Polish Bar Council, on 26 September 2017, Prof. Elżbieta Traple, PhD, Habil. was presented with the “Adwokatura Zasłużonym” Award [The Bar’s Award for People of Merit].

An official award presentation took place on 7 October 2017 in Krakow during the celebrations to mark the 155th Anniversary of the establishment of the Krakow Bar Chamber.

7 October 2017 will be the inauguration day of postgraduate studies in Acting as Inspector for the Protection of Personal Data at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

The objective of the two-semester postgraduate studies in Acting as Inspector for the Protection of Personal Data is to educate individuals who prepare themselves to perform the function of inspector for the protection of personal data on the basis of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), which will come into force on 25 May 2018.

It is our pleasure to inform you that the lecturers include experts of the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Law Firm: Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law, Jan Byrski, PhD, Attorney-at-Law, and Grzegorz Sibiga, PhD, Attorney-at-Law, who is also Head of the Studies. Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law, is a member of the Programme Board of the Postgraduate Studies.

Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data and the Association of Information Security Administrators took patronage over the studies.

For detailed information about the studies, please visit the website of the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences at the following link.

Professor in the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Paweł Podrecki, PhD, hab. specialises in intellectual property law, competition law, new technologies law and civil law. He is an attorney-at-law and a senior partner in the Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy law firm. He is a member of the Competition Law Association and of the Industrial Property Law Association, and an arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Internet Domains. He participates in drafting legislation and prepared expert opinions for the Polish Sejm and Senate. He works with the Civil Law Codification Commission and the Copyright Commission. He gives lectures and seminars on civil law, industrial property law, competition protection law, and unfair competition law at the Jagiellonian University. He authored a number of scientific publications, including monographs:  “Prawo Internetu” (The Law of the Internet) and “Środki ochrony praw własności intelektualnej” (Means of protecting intellectual property rights). He is a co-author of many chapters in the Private Law System in the volumes on Competition law and Industrial property law.

Paweł Podrecki has been repeatedly recommended in Polish and international rankings of lawyers specialising in intellectual property law and competition law (including Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, WTR1000, Legal 500, Rzeczpospolita).

We are pleased to announce that Aleksandra Młoczkowska has become a member of the INTA Committee which in 2018-2019 will deal with the protection of trademarks on the Internet.

Internet Committee

Develops and advocates the Association’s policy regarding the balanced protection of trademarks on the Internet. The committee will focus primarily on policy development and compliance issues at the Internet Corporation of assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) with regard to use of trademarks in the domain name system. This includes active and vocal participation in working groups and drafting of public comments. In addition to ICANN policy, the committee will monitor developments in other global internet governance initiatives, social media, mobile applications and other technical platforms and provide subject matter expertise to relevant INTA committees and staff.

The Act on Combating Unfair Use of Contractual Advantage in Trading of Agricultural and Food Products of 15 December 2016 enters into force today.

Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Law Firm offers legal advice on the application of the new legal act. In particular, we offer assistance in determining how the unfair use of contractual advantage should be interpreted. It will be especially of the essence how competition law authorities will practically interpret the objective scope, i.e. to which products and commercial relations the new act applies, and the subjective scope, i.e. to whom the new act applies. Focus will also be on issues related to the very concept of contractual advantage and the unfair use thereof, settlement systems used between suppliers and buyers, and the manner of negotiating new commercial terms.

We are happy to announce that Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy law firm has become a member of the international Lexing network.

Lexing is the first network of lawyers and law firms specialising in new technologies and digital law. Lexing has been created on the initiative of Alain Bensoussan, the founder and managing partner of Alain Bensoussan-Avocats. The Lexing network currently comprises about thirty law firms.

For more information visit the Lexing website: https://lexing.network/en

On 26 May 2017, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage appointed the Copyright Commission. The Commission consists of 30 arbitrators proposed by collecting societies and associations of artists, performers and producers, as well as organisations that associate entities using copyrighted works or related rights items, and radio and television organisations. As in previous years, the arbitrators include Professor Elżbieta Traple PhD hab., attorney-at-law and Wojciech Kulis, attorney-at-law.

More information is available on the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage:
http://bip.mkidn.gov.pl/pages/posts/powolanie-komisji-prawa-autorskiego-2188.php

We have the pleasure to inform you that Anna Sokołowska-Ławniczak, PhD, Patent Attorney, Partner, and Aleksandra Młoczkowska, Patent Attorney, took part in the annual International Trademark Association (INTA) meeting.

The conference is the largest and the world’s most important event during the year on the broadly understood intellectual property. This year more than 11,000 people participated in the meeting – law firms, in-house lawyers and representatives of the largest global companies.

The meeting was held in Barcelona on 20-24 May 2017.

INTA is the world’s largest association of trademark owners and specialists in intellectual property law, established to promote the protection of the rights of consumers and trademark owners.

Currently, INTA brings together more than 6,700 organisations from 190 countries.

On 28 April 2017 an Inaugural Meeting of the PIIT Board of the 13th, 2017-2019 term was held in Warsaw.

We are pleased to announce that Xawery Konarski, Attorney-at-Law, Senior Partner, was elected Vice-President of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications. He is also a member of the PIIT Board.

More information of the Inaugural Meeting of the PIIT Board is available on the website of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

On 20 April 2017 the Rzeczpospolita daily published the results of the 15th edition of its Ranking of Law Firms.

We are pleased to announce that Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy Law Firm was given the title of the leader in intellectual and industrial property law as well as copyright law, and the recommendation in the technologies, media and telecommunications category.

Individual distinctions went to:

• Prof. Elżbieta Traple, PhD – leader in the “Intellectual and industrial property law as well as copyright law” category
• Xawery Konarski – recommendation in the “Technologies, media and telecommunications” category
• Paweł Podrecki, PhD – recommendation in the “Intellectual and industrial property law as well as copyright law” category

We have the pleasure to inform you that in this year’s edition of the Chambers Europe ranking the Traple Konarski Podrecki & Wspólnicy law firm and its lawyers yet again received high recommendations in the following fields:

• Intellectual Property (Band 2),
• TMT (Band 2).

Individual recommendations went to:

• Intellectual Property – Professor Elżbieta Traple (Band 1), Paweł Podrecki, attorney-at-law (Band 3);
• TMT – Xawery Konarski, attorney-at-law (Band 1);
• Competition/Antitrust – Paweł Podrecki, attorney-at-law (Band 3).

Details of the ranking are available at Chambers & Partners.

On 23 March 2017 Polityka Insight announced the results of the second edition of the Regulatory Law Firms Ranking.

We are happy to announce that Traple Konarski Podrecki i Wspólnicy law firm was recognised in the following categories:

• Personal Data – Band 1
• Telecommunications – Band 1
• Competition – Band 3

The Regulatory Law Firms Ranking organised by Polityka Insight is a unique qualitative study of the law firm sector in Poland based, among other components, on questionnaires filled in by Polish law firms and their clients – major companies from the regulated sectors. The Ranking covers law firms which provide regulatory consultancy services, i.e. related to public business law enforced by authorities such as the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) or the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF).

Detailed results of the Ranking are available on the Polityka Insight website.