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Poland

(WIPO code: PL)
(latest review July 2024)
by POLSERVICE, Warsaw – A. Stopinska-Slefarska and W. Marciniak, Patent Attorneys

Area

312,696 sq. km.

Population

37,698,294 (June 2023).

Capital

Warsaw, with about 1.8 million inhabitants.

Currency

Zlotys (PLN).

Language

Polish.

Principal imports

Machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods and articles, chemicals and mineral fuels.

Principal exports

Machinery and transport equipment, miscellaneous manufactured articles, food and live animals.

About 12% of the population is engaged in agriculture. The chief crops are: rye, wheat, barley, rapeseed, oats, potatoes, sugar beet, tobacco and flax.

There are important textile, chemical, woodwork and metal industries. Poland also produces automobiles, tractors, heavy machinery, ships and aircrafts.

Poland possesses great mineral wealth, particularly coal, but also iron, lignite, copper, natural gas, lead, sulphur and zinc.

Member of the European Union as of May 1, 2004.

Statistics (2022) Filed Issued
Patents and utility models 3,944 2,798
total valid patents and utility models on 31.12.2021 19,772
Validation of European patents 9,075
total valid EU patents on 31.12.2021   94,156
Trademarks 12,595 11,161
under Madrid Agreement 1,876 1,708
total valid trademarks on 31.12.2021    
under national procedure   175,064
under international procedure   75,839
Industrial designs 825 749
total valid industrial designs on 31.12.2021   8,357
Topographies of integrated circuits 9 19
total valid topographies on 31.12.2021   82
Geographical indications 1 1

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