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ARTICLE · 01 MAY 2025

Trademarks - When A License Is Required?

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Trademarks are increasingly an important element in the conduct of business by entrepreneurs, enabling them to build a reputation and recognition in the market among competitors.

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Adrian Nosal
Adrian Nosal
Eric Rheims
Eric Rheims

Trademarks are increasingly an important element in the conduct of business by entrepreneurs, enabling them to build a reputation and recognition in the market among competitors. Obtaining a right of protection gives the right holder a kind of monopoly on the use of the trade mark for profit or for professional purposes. The right holder may authorise another person to use the mark by concluding a license agreement with that person. In the absence of a license, the use of the mark will, as a rule, be an unlawful activity.

The Polish Industrial Property Law (IPL) contains a catalogue of exemplary acts constituting the use of a trademark. Pursuant to Article 154 of the IPL, the use of a trademark consists in particular (but not exclusively!) in:

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