The participants – foreign and polish lawyers, representative of the Polish Paten Office, mediators and many, many others – had a chance to listen to two parts of the lecture dedicated to mediation and arbitration. During the first one Mr. Ignacio de Castro (the World Intellectual Property Organisation) presented various aspects of applying for mediation/arbitration in WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center  (for more information please visit http://www.wipo.int ) – i .e. its requirements, advantages and disadvantages, costs and forms. What is more, issued related to mediation, arbitration and court litigation have been compared. The practical way to solve the dispute through a mediation or arbitration has been shown.  The second part has been dedicated to matters connected with intellectual property law and it has been held by dr Marcin Balicki (Allerhand Institute) and Att. Dorota Rzążewska (JWP Patent Agents, Poland). The whole concept of a mediator profession has been presented and the main question asked during the speeches was – do we really need mediations ? Many examples of cases conducted by the speakers in their daily activity have been discussed, especially the length and costs of those processes. They showed, that ADR is profitable indeed, because of the time, costs, effectiveness, objectivity of the mediator/arbitrator and (in case of arbitration) the possibility to execute the judgement internationally. What was also interesting, some issues considering internet domains and its protection have been discussed.

 It has been a great pleasure to meet above mentioned experts and take part in workshops. We are looking forward to participate in the next symposium.

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Ron Marchant, Ray Wheatley, prof. Tadeusz Uhl and Dave Perry

After the coffee break, the first panel was held, with the theme of presenting the perspective of universities: “From start to scale up. Universities perspective.” Participants of the panel were: Dave Perry from The University of Texas at Austin, Professor Tadeusz Uhl from AGH University of Science and Technology and Ray Wheatley from MS CLP, United States.
Speakers noticed that it is often the case that during the so-called “elevator pitch” young entrepreneurs speak for half an hour and there are no specifics about it. After these 30 minutes, you still don’t know what they want to sell. Prof. Uhl, on the other hand, said that everything looks nice outside, but if it “gets inside”, there is nothing there. They emphasized that good business presentation is the basis and that start-ups need customers. Then they reported that only 30% of start-ups survived the first five years. An important message concerning the financing of start-ups is that too much money is just as bad as a lack of money.
They also pointed out that start-ups had to take milestones and that flexibility was important, and that we could not impose our thinking on them. It is also worth investing in a patent portfolio prepared with Polish lawyer or patent attorney.
At the end of the panel, the listeners asked questions. The issue of lack of knowledge about intellectual property was discussed, which is connected with the fact that we pay attention to marketing in the company, forgetting about intellectual property at the same time.

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Radosław Ratajczak and Emil Klucz

After the keynotes speeches, including a welcome speech of Alicja Adamczak, President of Polish Patent Office, Polish lawyer and patent attorney, representatives of the Passio Group – Emil Klucz and Radosław Ratajczak presented the group’s activities in the part of symposium entitled Startup and what’s next? The main sectors where the industry operates are metrology electronics, medical devices, farm technology, aviation, medicine and nanotechnology.

In their opinion, the start-ups think differently because they are not contaminated by the opinions of others. Their activity is, to a large extent, to teach start-ups how to think, to focus on hard work and to finance them.
In their speech, they stressed that it was difficult to convince a global entrepreneur to take the first step. In addition, they identified the stages of development: – the following
Stage 0 – deep thinking about the future.
Stage 1 – design thinking.
Step 2 – product preparation.
Step 3 – production preparation.

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Anna Azari and Alicja Adamczak

The symposium was opened with a welcome speech by Dr. Alicja Adamczak, President of the Patent Office, Polish lawyer and patent attorney. Next speaker was Dr Francis Gurry, Director General of World Inellectual Property Organization, who unfortunately could not attend the symposium in person. In this connection, a video was played, on which Dr. Francis Gurry spoke about start-ups and the importance of intellectual property, which was a good introduction to the symposium.

 One of the speakers was the Israeli Ambassador of the State of Israel, Anna Azari, who presented Israel’s innovation policy. It is worth emphasising that almost every innovation in Israel starts in the army. In her speech she spoke about a cyber-security project, one of the aims of which was to find and catch paedophiles.
Sławomir Tokarski, Director of Innovation and Advanced Manufacturing European Comission, also made his speech, saying that companies do not use intellectual property because they do not see the potential. He also stressed the importance of an agreement between patent holders, the advertising industry and the financial sector. In addition, he noted that patents make it easier for small businesses to enter the market.

Sławomir Tokarski and Alicja Adamczak

Then Bente Waldstrom from the European Union Intellectual Property Office took place on the pulpit, whose message concerning the approach to start-ups is contained in the question: Have we walked a mile in their shoes? In addition, she presented a SME panel which they created to help small and medium-sized enterprises, including of course start-ups.
At the end of this part of the symposium, UPRP President Alicja Adamczak presented statistics on intellectual property rights: 60 million exclusive rights in use including 35 million patents and 20 million trademarks. She noted that the highest number of applications came from China and that Poland is at the top of the list of countries in terms of daily applications with 65 applications per day.

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The subject of the workshops was identical with topic, so it was about cooperation between corporations. The participants were mainly entrepreneurs, people working in Treasury companies, start-up and other participants.

Workshop were divided into two parts. The first part was run by Mrs. Beata from PWC. The participants were divided into four groups. Two groups took on the role of corporations, and two took the role of start-ups. The group’s task was to mention the most common stereotypes of the other side: start-ups listed stereotypes about corporations, and corporations talked about stereotypes about start-ups.

The most popular stereotypes mentioned by participants are:

Then, Mrs. Beata told the participants about cooperation between start-ups with corporations. She highlighted the important aspect of dialogue between the parties and sin cerity in building cooperation. In addition, she stressed that start-ups often have to, before they go to corporations asking for cooperation, “do their homework.” This means that they must have prepared their expectations, requirements, and also have a preliminary idea about their cooperation with the corporation.

The second part of the workshop was conducted by Mrs. Monika from Creators Ideation Lab. The lecturer focused on her presentation on the characteristics of Israel – because she works and lives there – as a country that is the one of the world leader in terms of innovation. In her presentation, she emphasized that Israel is an innovative country, especially in three areas: militaria, health care, agriculture. Her thesis was motivated by presenting figures, which was e.g.: % of GDP transferred to the development of private enterprises. By the end of her speech, the lecturer drew attention to the upbringing of Israeli citizens who, from an early age, were taught to take risks and not to be discouraged by failures.

During the workshop participants were free to express themselves and conducting interesting discussions were held between them and between them and the leaders.

Artykuł KG Legal participated in the workshop on “Corporations and start-ups – how to cooperate?” during the Polish Patent Office’s Symposium pochodzi z serwisu KIELTYKA GLADKOWSKI LEGAL | CROSS BORDER POLISH LAW FIRM RANKED IN THE LEGAL 500 EMEA SINCE 2019.