The latest edition of the TKP Legal newsletter is now available! This issue features 11 expert articles analyzing current legal changes and challenges – from technology and financial market regulations, through competition law, to matters related to the employment of foreign nationals. These topics are particularly relevant for lawyers, managers, entrepreneurs, and anyone keen to stay up to date with the evolving legal and regulatory landscape.

The registration of a trademark is associated with an important obligation involving its use. Simply referring to high brand recognition or extensive operations may prove insufficient in evidence proceedings before intellectual property authorities. The use of the trademark must be real (it cannot be apparent or symbolic), it must take place in the territory where the trademark is registered, and refer precisely to the goods or services for which it is registered. Otherwise, the entrepreneur may lose protection.

In today’s IP Insights, we wonder, whether there is room for copyright in packaging protection. In one of the previous issues, we described the IP protection of packaging based on trademark and industrial design law. How does copyright relate to that? 

On 1 June 2025, the Act on the conditions of permissibility of entrusting work to foreigners on the territory of the Republic of Poland entered into force. The Act maintains the general rules for entrusting work to foreigners that were previously contained in the Act on employment promotion and labour market Institutions. However, the new legislation introduces significant restrictions which, in practice, may make the process of hiring foreigners more difficult.

RozporządThe Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the framework for access to financial data and amending Regulations (EU) No 1093/2010, (EU) No 1094/2010, (EU) 1095/2010 and (EU) 2022/2554 (FiDAR) will impose new obligations on financial institutions. These relate to the provision of data on certain types of customer contracts to financial information service providers (FISPs) or other financial institutions. At the same time, financial institutions remain obliged under national regulations to maintain secrecy in respect of a significant part of their activities.