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Marcin Przybysz
Work Department
Intellectual Property and Technology
Position
Marcin Przybysz, advocate, senior associate in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Practice Group.
He regularly advises global and local clients on the intellectual property rights protection, which includes developing IP strategies, combating and litigating infringements on all court levels, negotiating transfers and licensing of digital products and new technologies, as well as conducting due diligence audits for the purposes of transactions. He has also advised clients on data protection compliance, including on the GDPR, with a particular focus on e-commerce and online gaming sectors.
Marcin has extensive experience in working for global video gaming sector companies, including as an in-house lawyer seconded to a sister company of Poland’s largest video game developer, where he advised on various aspects of operation of a digital distribution platform, in particular in connection with the licensing of IP rights, privacy, consumer protection, marketing campaigns and collaboration with influencers.
Experience
- Leading social media app provider: Regular advice on brand protection and combating infringements, including trademark litigation and domain arbitration as a result of which the client won back its .pl domain.
- Developer and operator of a popular online game: Advice on a lawsuit against a defendant accused of infringing copyrights to certain game elements and enabling unauthorized online gaming.
- Video games distributor: Negotiating a licensing of a video games portfolio and strategic partnership with a global video gaming partner.
- Developer of popular MMOG video games: Reviewing user agreements and privacy-related policies, as well as advising on the implementation of a monetization scheme, including in terms of compliance with consumer and gambling laws.
- Global streaming service provider: Advising on data privacy, consumer protection and marketing campaign compliance, as well as conducting litigation concerning similar trademark filings made by competitors.
- Mobility as a Service app provider: Advising on an investment agreement and a transaction involving sale of rights to the application.
- Global FMCG manufacturer: Conducting a number of proceedings before the Polish Patent Office, administrative courts (incl. the Supreme Administrative Court), concerning similar trademark filings made by a supermarket chain.
- Global FMCG manufacturer: Litigating and pursuing claims in connection with placing products using the client’s 3D trademark on the market by the competitor.
- Leading lighting manufacturers: Conducting a number of court proceedings and pursuing claims in connection with placing products using the clients’ Community designs on the market by their competitors.
- Airlines: Managing a trademark portfolio.
Career
- Senior Associate, Dentons, Warsaw, 2022 to date
- Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing, Warsaw, 2016–2022
- Senior Legal Counsel (seconded), GOG.com (CD Projekt capital group), Warsaw, 2020–2021
- Associate, Taylor Wessing, Warsaw, 2013–2016
- Intern, Taylor Wessing, Warsaw, 2013
Languages
Polish, English
Lawyer Rankings
Poland > TMT
At Dentons, ‘all of the lawyers in the team are experts in their field‘. The team is skilled at handling technology-related M&A transactions, as well as advising on telecoms and media regulatory issues, IT licensing, and distribution agreements. Karol Laskowski leads the local team, and he also acts as co-head of the firm’s European TMT sector group. Senior associates Bartosz Dobkowski and Kamil Januszek specialise in TMT regulatory mandates, while senior associate Marcin Przybysz has particular expertise in assisting clients in the gaming sector. Counsel Paweł Gruszecki joined the team at the beginning of 2023, and he bolsters the team’s expertise in handling large-scale and long-term technology projects.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Competition/antitrust
- Construction
- Data privacy and data protection
- Employment
- Investment funds
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- TMT