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Dr Anna Rogacka-Łukasik
ORCID: 0000-0001-6140-0591

Doctor of legal sciences. Research and teaching assistant in the Department of Judicial Law at the Faculty of Law and Economics of Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. Author of publications in the field of civil law and private international law. Research interests: the issue of unnamed contracts in domestic as well as international transactions, consumer contract law, the relationship between public and private law, including the conflict of laws regarding the application of public law, and the regulatory issues related to people with disabilities. Member of the Committee of Legal and Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Katowice Branch. Regular member of the Association for Research on the Sources and Functions of Law ''Fontes''. Secretary of the editorial board of the journal ''Gubernaculum et Administratio''.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2025.5.5
JEL: K11, K33

At the beginning of June 2023, the legislative reform of the European patent system entered into force and the EU patent package came into force. Its elements are: the European patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court. Poland joined the EU enhanced cooperation procedure aimed at creating a unitary European patent system, but did not sign the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court. Therefore, the question arises: if Poland has not joined the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court, what is the purpose of considering its assumptions? Well, its provisions are not indifferent to Polish entities applying for patents. For these reasons, the aim of this article is, after presenting the European patent with unitary effect and the functioning of the Unified Patent Court, to present the effects of the regulation in relation to Poland.

Keywords: EU law; patent protection; European patent with unitary effect; Unified Patent Court