Anna Gołębiowska

At GKR Legal Law Firm we combine years of experience providing legal services to entrepreneurs through a partnership cooperation model.

We understand that businesses are looking for legal services based on practical advice, transparent relations and tangible cooperation between the parties.

Our team has expertise in cases requiring in-depth knowledge, as well as, knowledge of the business environment of enterprises.

We support our clients in:

• Intellectual Property
• Competition Law
• Real-Estate
• Insolvency Law
• M&A, Corporate Law
• Labour Law and GDPR
• Litigation & Arbitration
• Administrative Law

We support Polish and foreign clients on brand protection at every proceeding stage. The GKR Legal team advises on protecting trademarks, designs, know-how and trade secrets. We help with both, property rights regarding technology and IPR and their transfer to other entities.

We also help business entities to organize customer service activities following the latest regulations, including EU regulations, on the protection of end recipients, consumers, etc.  Finally, we understand that the effective fight against dishonest competitors and ensuring the protection of the company's interests in the broadly understood business environment are critical issues for the safe operation of the company and the possibilities of its practical development.

We offer legal assistance to parties in bankruptcy and enforcement proceedings at all stages of the procedure.

Focus  

• Intellectual property law
• Law on unfair competition

Experience

Anna Gołębiowska advises Polish and foreign Clients in various IP cases, including these regarding protection of brands, technology transfer, protection of confidential business information and advertising. She has significant experience in conducting intellectual property and unfair competition litigation before Polish courts as well as contentious matters before the Polish Patent Office and administrative courts. She deals with cases regarding the protection of internet domains.

Anna has advised Polish and foreign entrepreneurs for over 20 years.
She works mainly with FMCG, automotive, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and advertising sectors. She leads clients through economic matters, including intellectual property issues (trademarks, designs, copyrights), combating unfair competition (product imitation, parasitism, protection of business secrets, the so-called "shelf fees", advertising) as well as ones regarding the protection of competition and consumers on the market.

Clients have repeatedly appreciated her experience in international rankings. The Lewiatan Court of Arbitration entered her on the list of arbitrators. And last but not least, she is the author of publications on civil procedure and intellectual property law in Poland and abroad.

Awards and Recognitions

Recommended repeatedly in various international rankings – in the fields of dispute resolution and intellectual property law:

• Chambers&Partners
• World Trademark Review 1000
• Who is Who Legal

Education

• Graduate of the Faculty of Law at the Warsaw University
• Admitted to practice as an attorney-at-law in 2002

Languages

• English
• Polish