The Supreme Administrative Court in its judgment of 27 January 2009 case file II GSK 612/08 held that the Court cannot deny the legitimacy to submit in the opposition proceedings before the Polish Patent Office, a request for invalidation of a right in industrial design registration, to a person, who was charged with the allegation of committing the offense of assigning to itself the authorship of this exclusive right (plagiarism), if that person alleges and argues that the questioned right was granted in violation and against of legally binding regulations.

This judgment concerned the industrial design “Rozetka pod pieczęć i plastyczną oprawę dokumentów” (in English: Rosette under seal and plastic binding documents), Rp-632. See also “Polish case law on industrial designs“.

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