The 4th EPLIT Annual Meeting took place in Munich on 12 May 2017. The programme of the meeting included presentations of some distinguished speakers as Max Brunner, Ministère de la Justice, Paris and Cristiano Morganti and Eileen Tottle from UKIPO.

Marek Łazewski, partner at LDS, moderated a very interesting panel discussion among European patent judges on their expectations from the UPC – the judges participating in the panel were:

• Marie Courboullay (Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris),
• Sam Granata (Hof van Beroep Antwerpen),
• Maximilian Haedicke (University of Freiburg),
• Paolo Catallozzi (Tribunale di Roma).

We are proud to announce that LDS Łazewski Depo & Partners has again been recommended by Chambers and Partners Europe and Global Guides.

LDS has been recognized in the Intellectual Property category in Band 2. The individuals included in the ranking are:

Marek Łazewski:

-acts on a wide range of contentious patent, trade mark and design matters. Sources praise him as a "very energetic lawyer."

Justyna Rasiewicz:

-knows how to talk to businesses."She is well versed in patent matters and has a strong track record advising clients in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

On 16-17 March 2017, the Polish, German and French Groups of AIPPI, with the participation of the AIPPI Bureau, organized a joint seminar on intellectual property law and related issues. The seminar took place in Warsaw. Marek Łazewski, partner at LDS and Second Deputy Secretary General of AIPPI took part in the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court update and Justyna Rasiewicz, also a partner at LDS, gave a presentation entitled: IP Lawyer in the Competition Law Environment.