Polish deputy director of the EU Intellectual Property Office
27.09.2024
Edyta Demby-Siwek, president of the Polish Patent Office, has been appointed deputy executive director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The office manages EU trademarks and industrial designs.
Edyta Demby-Siwek, president of the Polish Patent Office, has been appointed deputy executive director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The office manages EU trademarks and industrial designs.
Without innovation, there can be no economic development, and to protect it effectively is to make sure that the people involved in the process of creating it can reap the fruits of their labour. Large corporations are doing great, but with SMEs the situation is worse. That is why I am glad that, thanks to the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Technology, the first appointment in a long time to such a high position in the EU structures concerns President Demby-Siwek, who has a lot of experience in this field.
- said Deputy Minister of Development and Technology Ignacy Niemczycki.
The European Union Intellectual Property Office manages EU trademarks and industrial designs, which are valid throughout the EU. The EUIPO is also responsible for the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights and the Orphan Works Database. The Office has more than 1,000 employees and processes nearly 300,000 applications a year.
Edyta Demby-Siwek graduated in law from Warsaw University and completed postgraduate studies in industrial property protection at Jagiellonian University. She is both a Polish and European patent attorney. She has been involved, among other things, in legislative work on amendments to the Industrial Property Law and implementation of the reform of the trademark protection system in Poland. She has been with the Patent Office for 20 years, including five years as president. During her tenure, the office has become a fully digitised institution, using the latest artificial intelligence solutions. In 2019, only 30 percent of applications were submitted online, now 76 percent. An electronic registry has also been created, and all proceedings are conducted online, which has reduced the footprint. The digitisation efforts have been recognised - the Polish Patent Office has been named the 7th most innovative patent office in the world.