Szymon Gogulski

Senior Partner at Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak. His areas of interests include industrial property law, unfair competition law and copyrights. He specializes in disputes concerning trademarks (e.g. leading car producers, leading world’s software producers, Far East producer of watches and many more), unfair advertising (e.g. leading multinational chain of stores, leading national wholesaler), and industrial designs (e.g. leading regional building materials industry, FMCG producers). He has also been in charge of first biotech patent disputes in Poland. A part of his practice is advice to clients on general IP matters, including IP transactions and restructuring, as well as in developing advertising campaigns (e.g. to a leading sportswear producer). Recently, he has also assisted a couple of clients with respect to copyright infringements of architect designs. He has also a broad experience in contract law and company law, as in the 90’s, he was a member of M&A practice.

He joined SK&S in July 1994 and became partner in 2002.
He is a co-author of 3 chapters of the Polish leading commentary on Unfair Competition Law (Szwaja, Warsaw 2013), which deal with protection of trade secrets as well as protection of designs based on slavish imitation claims. He is also an active domain name arbitrator at Polish and European panels.

Szymon Gogulski graduated from Poznan University in 1994. He has worked with SK&S since July 1994, and became partner in January 2002. He was admitted to the Poznan bar in 1998.