POWER OF ATTORNEY AND CONFIDENTIALITY

The confidentiality of our Clients’ sensitive information and confidential intellectual property is guaranteed by law, as set out under Act No XXXII of 1995 on Patent Attorneys

“Section 15 (1) (1) Any facts, information or data coming to the knowledge of an acting patent attorney in the course of these activities shall be considered confidential information.

(2) The acting patent attorney shall be obliged to keep confidential information, unless this Act provides otherwise. This obligation of secrecy shall extend to documents and other data carriers of the patent attorney that contain confidential information.

(3) The acting patent attorney shall refuse to give witness evidence or supply data on confidential information in any official or judicial proceedings, except if the owner of the confidential information released them from the obligation of secrecy.

(4) The obligation of secrecy of the acting patent attorney shall not depend on the continuation of the legal relationship established for the purpose of pursuing patent attorney activities, and it shall continue to exist without any limitation in time even after the termination of the patent attorney activities or of the acting patent attorney.

Accordingly,

– we are must keep confidential all information that comes to our knowledge in the course of our work, regardless of its nature;

– we are also required to refuse to share this information when providing data or testimony; and

– furthermore, our obligation of confidentiality remains in force indefinitely after the termination of the contract for services.

We follow the “need to know” principle when in-house sharing of the information: we only include people who need to know the information. Confidentiality will be documented and declared when the contractual relationship is established.

You can download our Power of Attorney HERE.