A graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Krakow University of Technology, with extensive professional experience in various technical positions gained at WSK Świdnik, WSK-Rzeszów, the Field Industry Design Office and as a patent attorney. In the years 1976-95 he served as a patent attorney and head of the Center for Invention and Patent Protection of the Rzeszów University of Technology, and from 1989 he started his business, running the Patent Office „INICJATOR” Sp. z o. o. z/s in Rzeszów, being the first private patent office in the Third Polish Republic).
In 1973, he was the organizer of the Provincial Club of Technology and Rationalization and co-organizer of the annual Tournaments of Young Champions of Technology and Rationalization. As an expert witness of the District Court in Rzeszów in the field of private property protection, he prepared a significant number of court opinions. He was the patron of 10, especially local, trainee attorneys, and for his activities he received many decorations, including: silver and gold Cross of Merit, decoration of merit for Invention, merit for the province. Rzeszów, and in 2018 he was awarded by the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys with the „honorary badge of merit for the self-government of patent attorneys”
For two terms he was the chairman of the District Council of Patent Attorneys of the Podkarpackie District and a member of the National Council of Patent Attorneys of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys.
TO SUM UP:
He has over 40 years of experience as a patent attorney, filing several hundred patent applications in the fields of mechanics, metallurgy, electronics, energy and automation, chemistry and construction, as well as several hundred applications for industrial designs and trademarks. Represents clients in the field of industrial property law (inventions, utility models, industrial designs and trademarks), copyright, and the Act on Combating Unfair Competition.
It has:
- entry on the list of Polish patent attorneys at the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland in 1970. at No. 835
- entry on the list of European patent attorneys in 2004 under No. 137620 authorizing to act before the European Patent Office (EPO) and the International Office (WIPO) in matters related to the protection of inventions and utility and industrial models in any selected countries of the world
- entry on the list of professional representatives under No. 28070 of 2004 authorizing to appear before the European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) in Alicante (Spain), in matters related to applications for protection of Community trademarks and Community industrial designs
