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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 05:14:38+00:00

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The Voivodeship Administrative court in its judgment of 28 April 2010 case file VI SA/Wa 327/10 held that the Polish Patent Office should provide translation into Polish of documents that were allowed as evidence in administrative proceedings. Such conclusions stem from the Act of 7 October 1999 on the Polish language published in Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) of 1999 No 90 item 999. The authority/body provides official actions of public administration in the Polish language. The aforementioned act obliges the authority to make foreign language translation of the document. The examination of the contents of the document should be conducted in Polish, the one and only official language of the Polish administrative proceedings. Only then one can say that the procedural step, which consists of taking evidence from a document written in a foreign language, has been carried out correctly. The constitutional principle, which is reflected in rules of the Act on the Polish language, provides that the official language of the Republic of Poland is Polish and it requires that the documents being major evidence that affects the outcome of the administrative case, has been translated into Polish. Only then will it be possible to assess the accuracy of the examination of the content of such document.
Categories: Act on the Polish language | Art. 24 IPL | Art. 245 IPL | Art. 26 IPL | Art. 33 IPL | patent law | patentable subject matter | Polish law | Polish Patent Office | Voivodeship Administrative Court.
The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 19 March 2010 case file VI SA/Wa 112/10 held that adding to the patent application an idependent patent claim, that has a general feature that “electronic file is made available to anyone via the Internet”, which was made with the application for reconsideration, does not give the criteria of patentability to the “invention” that was disclosed in the application in question, according to article 28 point 6 within the meaning of article 24 of the Polish Act of 30 June 2000 on Industrial Property Law – IPL – (in Polish: ustawa Prawo własności przemysłowej) of 30 June 2000, published in Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) of 2001 No. 49, item 508, consolidated text of 13 June 2003, Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) No. 119, item 1117, with later amendments.
Patents shall be granted – regardless of the field of technology – for any inventions which are new, which involve an inventive step and which are susceptible of industrial application.
The VAC held that the additional claim was just presentation of information.
Categories: Art. 24 IPL | Art. 28 IPL | patent law | patentable subject matter | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Voivodeship Administrative Court.
The Voivodeship Administrative Court in Warsaw in its judgment of 10 June 2009 case file VI SA/Wa 2566/08 held that it is up to the Polish Patent Office (PPO) to reconsider the matter in its entirety and refer to the statements and allegations contained in the request for the reconsideration of the case, taking into account the above guidance and administrative procedures by which the PPO is bound.
Looks like no big deal, right? But if you could read the whole judgment, which unfortunately is not available in English, you would understand that the Polish Patent Office will have to issue an opinion, and will have to justify and explain it appropriately, on the subject what is an invention and what is a computer program and why the PPO does not grant patents to so-called “digital” solutions.
In this context, I look forward to the EPO decision in G 3/08 case and to the SCOTUS’ judgment In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943, 88 U.S.P.Q.2d 1385 (Fed. Cir. 2008).
Categories: case law | European Patent Office | patent law | patentable subject matter | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Polish Patent Office | US law | Voivodeship Administrative Court.
On 1 February 1995, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Holandia filed a patent application No. 378756 “method of converting a series of m-bit information words to a modulated signal, method of producing a record carrier, coding device, decoding device, recording device, reading device, signal, as well as a record carrier”. This application was based on the International patent application PCT/IB85/00070.
The Polish Patent Office acting under Article 49(2) of the IPL noted that the evidence and materials may indicate the existence of obstacles to obtain a patent on solution as mentioned above. According to the PPO the application did not comply with the requirements of Article. 10 of the Act of 19 October 1972 on innovation, because its characteristic features mentioned in claims 1 to 28 do not apply to a solution of a technical nature. After the exchange of correspondence and documents regarding amendments to the mentioned above application, the Polish Patent Office issued a decision on discontinuance of proceedings. Philips filed request for re-examination of the matter, however this decision was upheld by the PPO. Philips decided to file a complaint.
The Voivodeship Administrative Court in its judgment of 7 December 2007 case file VI SA/Wa 1594/07 held that the contested decisions violated the law to an extent to justify their repeal. The VAC ruled that it should be assumed that the condition of rigor for discontinuance of proceedings of the patent application occurs only when the applicant is totally passive to the calls addressed by the Patent Office and in general it do not answer any calls during the proceedings. The Court agreed in principle with the applicant that there should be the possibility of discontinuance of proceedings in part. Since the patent application may cover several inventions connected with each other in such a way that they constitute one clear idea of the inventor, the PPO must take a position as to any claimed invention, also to decide on discontinuance of proceedings if the legal requirements included the IPL will be met and there will be no obstacles to the recognition that the matter included in the application in the relevant section is a divided case.
Categories: Art. 37 IPL | Art. 46 IPL | patent law | patentable subject matter | Polish Act on Industrial Property Law | Voivodeship Administrative Court.
The Voivodeship Administrative Court in its judgment of 20 March 2008 case file VI SA/Wa 2091/07 ruled that the request for restitution of a term to file a request on rehearing is subject to article 58 of the Administrative Proceedings Code – APC – (in Polish: Kodeks postępowania administracyjnego) of 14 June 1960, Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) No 30, item 168, consolidated text of 9 October 2000, Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) No 98, item 1071 with subsequent amendments.
However, provisions of article 243(1) deals with the time limits set by the Polish Patent Office, while the deadline for The request for restitution of a term to file a request on rehearing is a term defined in the APC.
The fact that this applies only to time limits set by the PPO is showed in wording of article 243(2) of the IPL. This whole provisions of article 243 of the IPL apply only to certain categories of terms. This limitation results from the wording of this provision.
Categories: Art. 243 IPL | Art. 58 APC | patent law | Polish Administrative Proceedings Code | Voivodeship Administrative Court.
If you were ever wondering about the origin of this a little bit misleading term of “intellectual property”, you probably did some Internet research. The most popular resource is wikipedia.org of course. It will give you some help in this matter. The term “intellectual property” was used for the first time in 1845, by Judge Charles L. Woodbury’s in Davoll v. Brown, 1 Woodb. & M. 53, 3 West.L.J. 151, 7 F.Cas. 197, No. 3662, 2 Robb.Pat.Cas. 303, Merw.Pat.Inv. 414, PDF file.
Only thus can ingenuity and perseverance be encouraged to exert themselves in this way usefully to the community; and only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests as much a man’s own, and as much the fruit of his honest industry, as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears.
For all of you who are interested in this subject matter I added a link to the full text of this judgment. The case discussed patent law issues. I also edited the wikipedia post. If anynone of you have a copy of A. Nion’s book entitled “Droit civils des auteurs, artistes et inventeurs” I would appreciate if you contact me.
Categories: copyright law | patent law | US law.
The Voivodeship Administrative Court in its judgment of 20 April 2004 case file 6 II SA 3937/02, ruled that a given solution is deemed as a patentable invention if at least one new element is not obvious in the technical area. If the inventive contribution lies solely in the area of non-technical solution it should be considered unpatentable. The Polish Patent Office considered that the interpretation of the VAC provided clarification on how to read the Regulation of the Prime Ministers of 17 September, 2001 on filing and processing of patent applications. The PPO considered that the invention must relate to material product suitable for use, that is described with specific technical characteristics relating to to its structure or composition , or specific technical process that have an impact on the material.
Categories: patent law | patentable subject matter | Voivodeship Administrative Court.

References: Art. 24
 Art. 245
 Art. 26
 Art. 33
 Art. 24
 Art. 28
 application No. 378756
 Art. 37
 Art. 46
 Art. 243
 Art. 58
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