• Monika Chimiak
• Partner, Advocate, Trademark and Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, professional representative before EUIPO (Trademarks and Designs)
• Languages: Polish, English
• E-mail: mchimiak@kulikowski.pl

Monika has been cooperating with Kulikowska & Kulikowski since 2003. Her focus areas are, among others, litigation relating to pharmaceutical law, industrial and intellectual property, in particular patent and copyright law as well as unfair competition matters conducted before common and administrative courts, the Polish Patent Office and before prosecution and customs authorities.

In her everyday practice she is also engaged in counselling, drafting legal opinions and agreements relating to industrial and intellectual property, competition and copyright law. She prepares patent infringement strategies for the clients, including transnational issues. Compared to other lawyers, she has a unique ability to understand technical issues and how they relate to the legal sphere. She conducts administrative proceedings on patent invalidations for the clients from the technology and pharmaceutical industry. Monika is also the head of our firm’s criminal practice; thanks to the system she has implemented, clients protect their brands in an effective and low-cost manner, and obtain damages from manufacturers’ counterfeit products.

Monika is the Chairperson of the Disciplinary Court of Appeals of the Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys and an active member of professional body for Polish patent and trademark attorneys. She is also engaged in AIPPI and EPI’s Professional Conduct Committee. She conducts trainings and lectures in this area for students and trainees, as well as for the police and customs officers. Monika is a co-author of a Commentary to Industrial Property Law published by C.H. Beck in 2014 and 2020. She has also published in various foreign magazines, such as IAM and World Trademark Review, eg. „New and improved IP law provisions benefit entrepreneurs” in: IAM Yearbook 2018 Building IP value in the 21st century as well as Trademark Litigation in Poland in WTR. Trademark Litigation 2017. A Global Guide.

• Beata Wojtkowska
• Partner, Trademark Attorney, Advocate, European Patent Attorney; professional representative before EUIPO (Trademarks and Designs)
• Languages: Polish, English
• E-mail: bwojtkowska@kulikowski.pl

Beata has been with Kulikowska & Kulikowski since 2000. Her areas of expertise are, among others, trademark protection with particular emphasis on renowned trademarks and the aspects of distinctiveness, geographical indications, litigation relating to industrial property protection and combating unfair competition before the Polish Patent Office, EUIPO and courts, drafting legal opinions and agreements, counselling on IP portfolio management.

Beata is an active member of INTA (International Trademark Association) within which she has cooperated with INTA Bulletin and Geographical Indication Committee. She is an author of numerous international publications such as INTA Bulletin and World Trademark Review: i.a. „New and improved IP law provisions benefit entrepreneurs” in: IAM Yearbook 2018 Building IP value in the 21st century, “Trademark Litigation in Poland” in: WTR Trademark Litigation 2017, A Global Guide, “POLAND: IP Owners Can Demand Evidence from Infringers” in: INTA Bulletin June 15, 2020.