The Supreme Administrative Court in a judgment of 3 October 2005, case file II GSK 195/05, published in Orzecznictwo Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego i Wojewódzkich Sądów Administracyjnych 2006/2/65/199, ruled that according to article 9(1) of the Polish Act on Patent Attorneys – APAT – (in Polish: ustawa o rzecznikach patentowych) of 11 April 2001, Journal of Laws (Dziennik Ustaw) No. 49, item 509, with subsequent amendments, a patent attorney shall act as agent in proceedings before the Polish Patent Office, Polish courts and bodies deciding on industrial property matters. this article includes all forms of practice of the patent attorney (for the patent attorneys’ firm, for the employer and on the basis of civil contracts) and all matters of industrial property within the meaning of article 2 of the APAT, that are decided in each of the aforementioned proceedings.

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