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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 05:07:14+00:00

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The District Court in Częstochowa in its judgment case file V GC 83/04, and the Appellate Court in Katowice in its judgment case file V ACa 469/07, ruled that the name DELICJE (better known by English readers as Jaffa cakes) is not a distinctive sign. This ruling ends long standing legal battle that was started by Lu Polska S.A. (owned by Kraft Food) against other five Polish companies. However, this judgment is not consistent with other courts’ decisions regarding the trade mark Delicje R-70513. The District Court in Warsaw ruled on 27 march 2007, that Tago Company, owned by Tadeusz Gołębiowski, which produces jaffa cakes under different brands such as Delicje, Delicje Mazowieckie, Delicante and Fruktolicja, infringed on Lu Polska’s trade mark.
Categories: distinctive character | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Appeallate Court | Polish courts | Polish District Court | Polish law | Polish Patent Office | trade mark infringement | trademark law.
The Appellate Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 29 June 2007, case file VI ACa 210/07, published in the electronic database Legalis, held that photographs that were taken when a movie was shoot do not need to be treated as derivative works of an audiovisual work (the movie).
Categories: Art. 1 ARNR | Art. 2 ARNR | copyright law | copyrightable subject matter | derivative work | Polish Act on Authors Rights and Neighbouring Rights | Polish Appeallate Court.
The Appellate Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 14 March 2006, case file VI ACa 1012/05, published in the Jurisprudence of Appellate Courts (in Polish: Orzecznictwo Sądów Apelacyjnych) of 2007, No 12, item 36, p. 56, held that when it comes the legal protection of the author’s work it does not matter how the infringer came into the possession of the work, or how the work arrived to him, in particular, it does not matter that the work, which is the subject of the infringement came to the infringer as unsolicited correspondence sent electronically, the so-called spam. The protection is not only afforded to the well known creator, whose works are published in big numbers, but to anyone whose rights to a protected work have been infringed in any possible way, copyright law makes no distinctions in the field of protection depending on the value of the work and the recognition enjoyed by the author.
Categories: Art. 1 ARNR | Art. 79 ARNR | case law | copyright infringement | copyright law | copyrightable subject matter | legal regulations on computer networks | Polish Act on Authors Rights and Neighbouring Rights | Polish Appeallate Court.
The Appellate Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 5 July 1995, case file I ACr 453/95, unpublished, held that on the grounds of the copyright law one has to oppose the actions of a creative nature against the technical operation and actions. The result of the latter is verifiable and repeatable, and its accomplishment only requires specific knowledge and efficiency. It is possible to predict a specific result of such actions. The feature of creativity, and thus the work itself, is the individual recognition and uniqueness of the accomplished result, in other words, the objective novelty, originality, autonomous creation, the creator’s personality projection as reflected in the work, whose effect is unpredictable, as the final result of the creative work (at least some elements).
Categories: Art. 1 ARNR | copyright law | copyrightable subject matter | Polish Act on Authors Rights and Neighbouring Rights | Polish Appeallate Court.
The Appellate Court in Warsaw in the order of 12 December 1995 r. case file I ACr 1191/95 held that the criterion of profitability (activities aimed at profit) is not inherent feature of business/economic activity. Such activity is distinguished because of its professional nature, the associated repetition of actions, subject to the principles of rational management and participation in trade.
Categories: Art. 104 ARNR | Art. 105 ARNR | case law | collecting society | copyright law | Polish Act on Authors Rights and Neighbouring Rights | Polish Appeallate Court | Polish law | remuneration fee.
The Appellate Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 2 October 1996, case file I ACa 2/96, held that the protection of author’s rights is attributed to the creator of a creative work and can be directed against anyone who infringes on these rights. This is an absolute protection, that is totally independent of whether there existed any contractual relationship between the creator and the infringer. The use of works without permission constitutes an infringement of author’s rights/copyrights.
Categories: Art. 1 ARNR | Art. 79 ARNR | case law | copyright law | copyrightable subject matter | Polish Act on Authors Rights and Neighbouring Rights | Polish Appeallate Court.
The Appellate Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 19 December 1999 case file I ACr 1013/95 held that the reputation of the company is understood as a general positive perception and evaluation of products of such a company that is expressed by the consumers. It may be treated as personal interest/rights of a legal person to which it apply mutatis mutandis, by Articles 23 and 24 f the Civil Code – CC – (in Polish: Kodeks Cywilny) of 23 April 1964, published in Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) No. 16, item 93, with subsequent amendments.
These non-economic/non-commercial values by which a legal person may operate on the market in accordance with the scope of its business, are also deemed as its personal rights or interests.
Categories: Art. 23 CC | Art. 24 CC | case law | company name or firm | defamation | personal rights or interests | Polish Appeallate Court | Polish Civil Code | reputed trade marks.
The Appellate Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 18 September 2001 case file I ACa 898/00 held that e-voting is fully in accordance with the provisions of Article 411 of the Code of Commercial Companies – CCC – (in Polish: Kodeks spółek handlowych) of 15 September 2000, Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) No. 94, item 1037 with subsequent amendments.
Art. 411. § 1. A share shall carry one vote at the general assembly.
§ 2. The voting right shall arise as of the date the share is paid for in full, unless the statutes provide otherwise.
§ 3. The statutes may limit the voting rights of shareholders controlling more than one-fifth of the total number of votes in the company. The limitation may apply only to the exercise of the voting right on shares above the limit of the votes provided for in the statutes.
§ 4. The statutes may also provide for cumulating of the votes held by the shareholders among whom there exists the relationship of dominance or dependence in the meaning of this or another act, as well as set out the rules for the reduction of the votes. In that case the votes attached to the shares of the dependent company or co-operative shall be added to the votes attached to the shares of the dominant company.
The Court decided that voting with the help of computer technology, meets the requirements of secrecy within the meaning of a provision providing shareholder unfettered opportunity to vote.
Categories: case law | computer law | e-documents | e-law issues | e-proceedings | e-voting | legal regulations on computer networks | Polish Appeallate Court.

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