National Phase of PCT: under Chapter I: 30 months; under Chapter II: 30 months.
Validity: issued after a formal preliminary and full examination – valid for 20 years from the filing date.
Annuities: accumulated annuities and due after the grant; subsequent annuities are payable after the anniversary of the filing date.
Opposition: possible within six months from the publication date of the granting decision.
Kinds of protection: trade and service marks, words, designs, ornaments, combinations of colors, three-dimensional shape of goods or their packaging, phonetic signals, or compositions of these elements.
Classification: International.
Use of the registered mark: mandatory within any five-year period from the registration date.
Duration - renewals: 10-year period from the filing date, renewable for further periods of 10 years.
Opposition: may only be filed after registration has been granted, within six months from the date of publication of the granting decision (Note: for applications filed from April 15, 2016, opposition may be filed before registration, within three months from publication of the application).
Duration - renewals: after formal examination: 5 years. Renewable for four additional 5-year periods.
Opposition: possible after registration has been granted, within six months from the publication date of the granting decision.
Duration – renewals: one year, renewable.
Uniform dispute resolution procedure: yes, before Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication (when one or both parties are registered or resident in Poland), or WIPO Arbitration Center (when both parties are registered or resident outside Poland).
Area: 312,623 sq. km.
Population: 38,562,000 inhabitants (estimated 2015).
Capital: Warsaw, with about 2.6 million inhabitants.
Language: Polish.
Currency: Zloties.
About 35% of the population is engaged in agriculture. The chief exports are raw and semi-manufactured materials, agricultural products and industrial products such as textiles, machinery, cars, ships, electronic devices, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc. The chief imports are machinery, building materials, textiles, chemicals and mineral products.
Member of the European Union as of May 1, 2004.
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