https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2017.17.3.08
Summary
This article examines contentious proceedings before the Polish Patent Ofce concerning industrial property where the provisions of the Polish Administrative Code (Kodeks postępowania administracyjnego) are applicable for cases not regulated under the Act on Industrial Property Law (Ustawa Prawo własności przemysłowej). The article takes an interdisciplinary approach, as the subject it addresses involves issues both from public and private law, in particular general administrative procedure and industrial property law, which is a branch of civil law (non-material goods law). Te focus is on contentious proceedings concerning the invalidation of industrial property rights. In such proceedings the decisions issued by the Polish Patent Office are usually submitted to the administrative courts for review. Contentious proceedings for the invalidation of industrial property rights are a very special type of administrative proceedings, with marked differences setting them apart from the usual kind of administrative proceedings. Te part played by the Patent Office as the administrative authority issuing a decision on the dispute is similar to that of a civil court. The nature of the contentious proceedings it handles is contradictory. There are many special features in such proceedings making them similar to proceedings in court.
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