Bird & Bird LLP

IP and TMT practice

Piotr is a Partner and a co-head of the IP and head of TMT practice in Bird & Bird's Warsaw office.

Since 2000, he has been advising companies and institutional clients. He specialises in IP law, advertising and media, telecommunications and e-commerce. His expertise also includes data protection, personal goods, unfair competition and gaming law. Piotr supports clients in developing and implementing comprehensive strategies for the protection of intellectual property, and IP rights management. He also advises clients in business transactions related to transfer and acquisition of IP rights, as well as anti-counterfeiting and unfair competition matters. He has represented clients in numerous, often unprecedented disputes on intellectual property, both before common courts, administrative courts, the Polish Patent Office and the courts of arbitration, particularly in patent disputes. Piotr has extensive experience in advising clients in the most innovative and creative industries, such as advertising agencies, publishing houses, pharmaceutical companies, media, and telecommunication companies. He is a lecturer at the Hugo Grotius Intellectual Property Law Centre in Warsaw and Jagiellonian University in Cracow. He co-authored a Legal Guide for E-business, published by Wolters Kluwer Polska (Warsaw, 2016).

Piotr works in Polish, English and German

He is a legal expert in IP and TMT to the Polish Chamber of Commerce and member of the Electronic Media Committee of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT), and a member of the Audit Committee of the Polish Chapter of Licensing Executive Society.

He studied law at the University of Warsaw, holds an LL. M. degree in European and Comparative law from Maastricht University and a diploma in English and European legal studies from the University of Cambridge