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On March 14, 2008, The Polish Patent Office together with The WIPO, The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, The Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, The National chamber of Commerce and The Polish Confederation of Private Employers LEWIATAN organize a conference “IP protection as a condition for women’ success in science and business” which will be located in Warsaw at The Polish National Library. During the above mentioned conference there will be also held an official ending of the 3rd edition of “The Woman-Inventor” competition-plebiscite.

Interesting industrial designs in the article available at www.smashingmagazine.com website.

There is very interesting judgement of the Provincional Administrative Court in Warsaw from October 11, 2007. Act signature VI SA/Wa 1215/07. It concerns a dispute regarding an industrial design of a handle for cutlery which is registered for Gerlach S.A. The Court had to decide about the novelty of a design based on electronic evidences. The court ruled that such evidences are not sufficient. A CD print-out from a database can not be treated as a legal document with an unquestionable date since there are graphical tools which make a modification of such data an easily possibility. In this case such a proof can not be deemed a proper evidence if it is not properly certified. Also a statement issued by a private company is not enough unless it is supported by invoices or official publications of catalogues of exhibitions where such product was shown. A compact disk has to be certified by an expert as regards to a date it was burned.